Recs if you like Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design...

The Cities We Deserve

Nonfiction exploring how better city design (urban planning) and policy can build people-centered cities that are sustainable, inclusive, and future-proof. Very North America centric but applies elsewhere.

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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

an Urban Planner's recs

by caoie

28 books

books I can find on PB that my professor's and cohort reference

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community

Beyond Sustainable Cities

by ash.isreading

20 books

Inspired by Chelssicle’s list ‘The Cities We Deserve’. How might we build urban spaces that care for both people and the planet? Fic and nonfic.

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Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

cities are for people, not for cars

by mar22

23 books

My personal curriculum reading list for a couple of deep dives I have planned, all under the same general category of urbanism, intersectionality, and how to make cities better. This has been a niche interest of mine for a while, but mostly just a thing I watch YouTube videos about. Now I'm looking to dive a bit deeper! I'll add books as I build out my "curriculums" & if you have any suggestions pls let me know! I have a sister list about public transportation.

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