URBAN DESIGN POLICY /
BRIEFS

Recommended Reading on Urban Design
As compiled by the Congress for the New Urbanism

Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. New York University Press, 1977.

Arendt, Randall. Rural by Design: Maintaining Small Town Character. Planners Press, 1994.

Baldassare, Mark. Trouble in Paradise: The Suburban Transformation in American. Columbia University Press, 1988.

Barnett, Jonathan. The Fractured Metropolis: Improving the New City, Restoring the Old City, Reshaping the Region. Harper Collins, 1995.

Bentley, I. Alcock, A Murrain, P. McGlynn, S. Smith, G. Responsive Environments: A Manual for Designers. Butterworth Helnemann Ltd, Oxford, England, 1985

Berry, Jeffrey, et al. The Rebirth of Urban Democracy. Brookings Institution, 1993.

Beveridge, Charles E., et al. Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape. Rizolli, 1995.

Brooke, Steven. Seaside. Pelican, 1995.

Buder, Stanley. Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community. Oxford University Press, 1990.

Burnham, Daniel. Plan of Chicago. Princeton Architectural Press, 1994.

Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. Princeton Architectural Press, 1993.

Downs, Anthony. New Visions for Metropolitan America. Brookings Institution / Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 1994.

Downs, Anthony. Stuck in traffic: Coping with Peak-Hour Traffic Congestion. Brookings Institution, 1992.

Duany, Andres and Plater Zyberk, Elizabeth. Towns and Townmaking Principles. Rizzoli, 1991.

Etzioni, Amitai. The Spirit of Community: The Reinvention of American Society. Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopians: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. Basic Books, 1989.

Garvin, Alexander. The American City: What Works and What Doesn’t. McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Goddard, Stephen B. Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century. University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Gratz, Roberta Brandes and Norman Mintz. Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown. John Wiley and Sons, 1998.

Hiss, Tony. The Experience of Place. Vintage Books, 1991.

Holtz, Jane Kay. Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back. Crown Publishers, 1997.

Hylton, Thomas. Save Our Land, Save Our Towns: A Plan for Pennsylvania. RB Books, 1995.

Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. Oxford University Press, 1987.

Jacobs, Allan B. Great Streets. MIT Press, 1993.

Jacobs, Jane. Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life. Random House, 1985.

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Vintage Books, 1992.

Katz, Peter. The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community. McGraw-Hill, 1994.

Kelbaugh, Doug. Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design. University of Washington Press, 1997.

Kemmis, Daniel. Community and the Politics of Place. University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.

Kemmis, Daniel. The Good City and The Good Life. Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Kunstler, James Howard. Home from Nowhere: Remaking our Everyday World for the 21st Century. Simon & Schuster, 19996.

Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-made Landscape. Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Langdon, Philip. A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb. Harper Perennial, 1995.

Lejeune, Jean-Francois (editor). The New City. Vol. 3: Modern Cities. University of Miami School of Architecture / Princeton Architectural Press, 1994.

Longo, Gianni. A Guide to Great American Public Places. Urban Initiatives, 1996.

MacKaye, Benton. The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning. University of Illinois Press, 1994.

McCamant, Kathryn and Durrett, Charles. CoHousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves. Ten Speed Press, 1994.

Moe, Richard and Carter Wilke. Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl. Henry Holt & Company, 1997.

Mohney David. Seaside: Making a Town in America. Princeton Architectural Press, 1991.

Nelesson, Anton. Visions for a New American Dream: Process, Principles, and an Ordinance to Plan and Design Small Communities. Planners Press, 1993.

Norquist, John. The Wealth of Cities: Revitalizing the Centers of American Life. Addison Wesley, 1998.

Oldenburg, Ray. The Great Good Place. Paragon House, 1991.

Orfield, Myron. Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability. Brookings Institution / Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1997.

Pick, Maritza. The Sierra Club Guide to Community Organizing: How to Save Your Neighborhood, City, or Town. Sierra Club Books, 1993.

Polyzoides, Stafanos, et al. Courtyard Housing in Los Angeles: A Typological Analysis. Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.

Porter, Douglas R. Managing Growth in America’s Communities. Island Press, 1997.

Reich, Robert B. The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism. Random House, 1992.

Rybcynski, Witold. City Life. Scribner, 1995.

Reps, John. The Making of Urban America: A History of City Planning in the U. S. Princeton University Press, 1965, 1994.

Rusk, David. Cities Without Suburbs. Woodrow Wilson Center, 1995.

Scully, Vincent. Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade. St. Martin’s Press, 1993.

Sennett, Richard. The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities. W. W. Norton, 1992.

Sennett, Richard. The Fall of Public Man. W. W. Norton, 1992.

Sewell, John. The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles With Modern Planning. University of Toronto Press, 1993.

Sucher, David. City Comforts. City Comforts Press. 1995.

Unwin, Raymond. Town Planning in Practice: An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs. Princeton Architectural Press, 1994.

Van Der Ryn, Sim and Calthorpe, Peter. Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs, and Towns. Sierra Club Books, 1986.

Valle, Erik. American Urban Typologies: Key West Florida. Village Publishers, 1995.