Books which help to inform urban planning theory
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last updated October, 2026
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy (Bicycle)
Elly Blue
Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
Gregor Craigie
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
Melissa Bruntlett
Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities (Mit Press)
Vaclav Smil
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Jorge AlmazĂĄn
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
Alain Bertaud
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World
Leslie Kern
Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change (Radical Geography)
Paul Chatterton
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Kate Raworth
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Henry Grabar
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change
Mike Lydon
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Charles L. Marohn Jr.
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Jeff Speck
The City We Became
N.K. Jemisin
The City & the City
China Miéville
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Parking: An International Perspective
Dorina Pojani
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
Steven Higashide
Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
Mikael Colville-Andersen
The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
Anna Zivarts
Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
Jarrett Walker
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System
Wes Marshall
The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis, and the Rise of Fossil Fascism
The Zetkin Collective
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880
Peter Geoffrey Hall
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Sarah Goodyear
Messy Cities: Why We Can't Plan Everything
Dylan Reid
On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
Evan Friss
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Lewis Mumford
The Just City
Susan S. Fainstein
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