The 100 "Best" Books
on City-Making Ever Written?
100 boeken over stede(n)bouw
(politiekers mogen beginnen lezen; niet politiekers ook)
100. Sustainable Communities_Sim Van der Ryn and Peter Calthorpe
99. Design with Nature_Ian McHarg
98. Ecocities_Richard Register
97. Highline: the Inside Story of New York City's Park In The Sky_David
and Hammond
96. The Geography of Nowhere_James Howard Kunstler
95. Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination_Lance Berelowitz
94. Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban
Future_Matt Hern
93. Building Barcelona_Peter Rowe
92. Cities Back from the Edge: New Life For Downtown_Roberta Brandes
Gratz and Norman Mintz
91. Urban Design and the Bottom Line: Optimizing the Return on
Perception_Dennis Jerke, Douglas Porter, Terry Lassar
90. Delirious New York_Rem Koolhaas
89. The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning_John
Sewell
88. Sprawl Repair Manual_Galina Tachieva
87. Public Sydney: Drawing the City_Thalis and Cantrill
86. Agricultural Urbanism_Janine de la Salle and Mark Holland
85. Learning from Las Vegas_Robert Venturi et al
84. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities_Southworth and
Ben-Joseph
83. Cities and Natural Process_Michael Hough
82. Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture_Witold Rybczynski
81. The Principles of Green Urbanism: Transforming the City for
Sustainability_Steffen Lehmann
80. Smart Cities_Anthony Townsend
79. Civilizing American Cities_Frederick Law Olmsted
78. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age_P.D. Smith
77. The New City_John Lorinc
76. Designing Community: Charrettes,Master Plans and Form-Based Codes_David
Walters
75. The Option of Urbanism_Christopher Leinberger
74. City Making in Paradise: Nine Decisions that Saved Vancouver_Mike
Harcourt and Ken Cameron
73. The Wealth of Cities_John Norquist
72. The Geography of Hope_Chris Turner
71. The Great Good Place_Ray Oldenburg
70. Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City_Mikoleit &
Purckhauer
69. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public
Space_Don Mitchell
68. The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented
Development_Hank Dittmar and Gloria Ohland
67. The Fractured Metropolis_Jonathan Barnett
66. Walking Home: the Life and Lessons of a City Builder_Ken Greenberg
65. Wrestling with Moses_Anthony Flint
64. E-Topia: "Urban Life, Jim – But Not As We Know It"_William
Mitchell (& City of Bits)
63. The Next American Metropolis_Peter Calthorpe
62. Grand Urban Rules_Alex Lehnerer
61. The Language of Towns and Cities: A Visual Dictionary_Dhiru Thadani
60. Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design_Matthew
Carmona, Tim Heath, Taner Oc, Steve Tiesdell_
59. Cities are Good for You: the Genius of the Metropolis_Leo Hollis
58. Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change_Peter Calthorpe
57. A Country of Cities: a Manifesto for an Urban America_Vishaan
Chakrabarti
56. Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form_Loukaitou-Sideris
& Banerjee
55. The Pedestrian Pocketbook: a New Suburban Design Strategy_Doug
Kelbaugh
54. The Old Way of Seeing_Jonathan Hale
53. Green Metropolis_David Owen
52. City Comforts: How to Build and Urban Village_David Sucher
51. Global City Blues_Daniel Solomon
50. People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space_Cooper Marcus
& Francis
49. Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning
Suburbs_Dunham-Jones and Williamson
48. Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities_Patrick Condon
47. The New Civic Art_Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Alminana
46. Sustainable Transportation Planning_Jeffrey Tumlin
45. Triumph of the City_Edward Glaeser
44. Who's Your City_Richard Florida
43. Perverse Cities_Pamela Blais
42. The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces_Nathan
Glazer and Mark Lilla
41. Cities of Tomorrow_Peter Hall
40. Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature_Douglas Farr
39. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things_McDonough and
Braungart
38. Visualizing Density_Julie Campoli and Alex MacLean
37. Suburban Nation_Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck
36. Eco-Urbanity: Towards Well Mannered Built Environments_Darko Radovic
35. Le Pieton Dans la Ville/Walking in the City: Sharing Public Space_Jean-Jacques
Terrin
34. Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being
and Sustainability_Dannenberg et al
33. Good City Form_Kevin Lynch
32. The Vancouver Achievement_John Punter
31. Livable Streets_Donald Appleyard
30. The City in History_Lewis Mumford (and The Culture of Cities, The
Highway and the City, The Urban Prospect, etc)
29. Town Spaces_Rob KrierN or Urban Space _Rob Krier
28. New Design Cities_Commerce Design Montreal
27. Design for Ecological Democracy_Randolph Hester
26. The American Vitruvius: An Architects Handbook of Civic Art_Hegemann
and Peets
25. Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change_Reid
Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters, and Don Chen
24. The Great Reset_Richard Florida
23. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design_Charles
Montgomery
22. The Power Broker – Robert Moses and the Fall of New York_Robert A.
Caro
21. The High Cost of Free Parking_Donald Shoup
20. Straphanger: Saving our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile_Taras
Grescoe
19. Human Transit_Jarrett Walker
18. City Cycling_Pucher & Buehler
17. Walkable City_Jeff Speck
16. Cerdà and the Barcelona of the Future: Reality versus Project_Ajuntament
de Barcelona
15. Modern Civic Art, or The City Made Beautiful_Charles Mulford
Robinson
14. Cities and the Wealth of Nations_Jane Jacobs
13. The City Shaped (& its partner, The City Assembled)_Spiro Kostof
12. The Creative City_Charles Landry
11. Town Planning in Practice_Raymond Unwin
10. Life Between Buildings_Jan Gehl
9. The Image of the City_Kevin Lynch
8. Townscape_Gordon Cullen
7. The Art of Building Cities_Camillo Sitte
6. A Pattern Language_Christopher Alexander et al (& his whole series,
including A New Theory of Urban Design; The Timeless Way of Building, etc.)
5. City: Rediscovering The Center_William H. Whyte _ includes its smaller predecessor, "the Social LIfe of Small Urban
Spaces"
4. Great Streets_Allan Jacobs
3. The Death and Life of Great American Cities_Jane Jacobs
2. The Art of City Making_Charles Landry
1. Cities for People_Jan Gehl
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