Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

Sarah Goodyear

Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

Samuel I. Schwartz

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

Jeff Speck

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

Janette Sadik-Khan

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

Charles Montgomery

Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity

Charles L. Marohn Jr.

The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

Roman Mars

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

Angie Schmitt

Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability

David Owen

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Andrés Duany

Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

Robert J. Sampson

Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

Ellen Dunham-Jones

Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface

Randy Shaw

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

Peter Moskowitz

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It

Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Feminist City: A Field Guide

Leslie Kern

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

Eric Klinenberg

Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction

David Macaulay

Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

Jarrett Walker

Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space

Jan Gehl

Great Streets (Mit Press)

Allan B. Jacobs

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond