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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

Link:Brent Toderian, MCIP Consulting City Planner + Urbanist