Messy Cities: Why We Can't Plan Everything

Dylan Reid

If Venice Dies

Salvatore Settis

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Caroline Criado Pérez

Starting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who've Had Enough

Roderick Douglass

Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space

Jan Gehl

Collage City (Mit Press)

Colin Rowe

How to Study Public Life

Jan Gehl

The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

Lewis Mumford

The Image of the City

Kevin Lynch

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

Sarah Goodyear

Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection

Samantha Paige Rosen

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

Eric Klinenberg

Urban Jungle: Wilding the City

Ben Wilson

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

Charles Montgomery

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

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

Ray Oldenburg

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

Charles L. Marohn Jr.

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

Richard Rothstein