Urban Studies / Urbanism

Spaces of Hope

David Harvey

Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City

St. Clair Drake, Horace R. Cayton, Richard Wright, and William Julius Wilson

American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Design of Cities

Wayne Attoe and Donn Logan

The Urban Revolution

Neil Smith, Henri Lefebvre, and Robert Bononno

Housing Reclaimed: Sustainable Homes for Next to Nothing

Jessica Kellner

The Situationists and the City: A Reader (40 Black & White)

Tom McDonough

Ivy, Homeless in San Francisco

Summer Brenner and Brian Bowes

The Death and Life of Great American Cities (50th Anniversary Edition) (Modern Library)

Jane Jacobs and Jason Epstein

Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities

Brent D. Ryan

When Public Housing was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago

J. S. Fuerst, D. Bradford Hunt, and John Hope Franklin

Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality

Patrick Sharkey

Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

Lawrence J. Vale

Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960

Arnold R. Hirsch

Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century

Nicholas Dagen Bloom

Edible Cities

Judith Anger, Immo Fiebrig, and Martin Schnyder

Time and the Suburbs: The Politics of Built Environments and the Future of Dissent (Semaphore Series)

Rohan Quinby

Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival

David Hanson, Edwin Marty, Michael Hanson, and Mark Winne

Talking Houses

Colin Ward

The End of San Francisco

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America

Ella Howard

Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America

Harriet Newburger, Eugenie L. Birch, and Susan M. Wachter

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York

Robert A. Caro

Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel

Juliana Ochs

Revolution Detroit: Strategies for Urban Reinvention

John Gallagher

Reimagining Detroit: Opportunities for Redefining an American City

John Gallagher

Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City

Carla L. Peterson

Building Playgrounds, Engaging Communities: Creating Safe and Happy Places for Children

Marybeth Lima

The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream

Randol Contreras

Move: How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A People's Guide to Los Angeles

Laura Pulido, Laura Barraclough, and Wendy Cheng

Neighborhood As Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City

Isabelle Anguelovski

City Cycling (Urban and Industrial Environments)

John Pucher and Ralph Buehler

Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City

Fumihiko Maki, Mark Mulligan, and Eduard F. Sekler

Toward a Minor Architecture

Jill Stoner

American Urban Form: A Representative History (Urban and Industrial Environments)

Sam Bass Warner, Andrew Whittemore, and Andrew Whittemore

ReThinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking

Eran Ben-Joseph

Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space

Charlie Hailey

Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)

Peter D. Norton

Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space

Mark Shepard

Social Justice and the City (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)

David Harvey

Fietsinfrastructuur / Cycle Infrastructure

Stefan Bendiks

The City as Interface: How Digital Media are Changing the City

Martijn de Waal

Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence

Jörn Ahrens and Arno Meteling

The Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War

Karen Umemoto

Sustainable Communities: Creating a Durable Local Economy

Rhonda Phillips (Author) and Ed Antczak (Author)

Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City

Mike Davis

Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation

Ezio Manzini

Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up

Marianne E. Krasny

Urban Flow: Bike Messengers and the City

Jeffrey L. Kidder

Planet of Slums

Mike Davis

Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk

Tactical Urbanism

Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia

The Ecological Design and Planning Reader

Forster O. Ndubisi

Public Produce: Cultivating Our Parks, Plazas, and Streets for Healthier Cities

Darrin Nordahl

Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field

Swati Chattopadhyay

Deep Mapping the Media City

Shannon Mattern

Building Together: Case Studies in Participatory Planning and Community Building

Roger Katan and Ronald Shiffman

Conservation for Cities: How to Plan and Build Natural Infrastructure

Robert I. McDonald

Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism

Stephen Graham

Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis

Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and Andrew Burridge

Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978

Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Elliott

St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

Ada Calhoun

The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology: Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities

Mary Cadenasso, Steward T. A. Pickett, J. Morgan Grove, W. R. Burch, G. E. Machlis, and Laura A. Ogden

Informal Market Worlds: Atlas: The Architecture of Economic Pressure

Helge Mooshammer

Informal Market Worlds: Reader: The Architecture of Economic Pressure

Helge Mooshammer, Teddy Cruz, Fonna Forman, and Peter Mörtenböeck

Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis

Preston Lauterbach (Author)

Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future

Matt Hern

The Urban Farmer: Growing Food for Profit on Leased and Borrowed Land

Curtis Allen Stone

Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago

Rashad Shabazz

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Jill Leovy

Henry Ford's Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit

Heather B. Barrow

Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape

Joseph Thompson and Denise Markonish

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World

Wade Graham

Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants

Hans-Christian Petersen

Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness

Nathanael Johnson

Critical Urban Studies: New Directions

Jonathan S. Davies and David L. Imbroscio

Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space

Neil Smith and David Harvey (foreword)

All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities

Michael Sorkin

My Baltimore Book

Becky Slogeris

A Burglar's Guide to the City

Geoff Manaugh

The Origins of the Urban Crisis : Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)

Thomas J. Sugrue

The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State

Patricia Fernández-Kelly

Vertical: Looking at the City from Above and Below

Stephen Graham

Design for Ecological Democracy

Randolph T. Hester

Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

Luc Sante

Formerly Urban: Projecting Rustbelt Futures

Julia Czerniak

From the Ground Up: Innovative Green Homes

Peggy Tully

Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America

Todd DePastino

Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory

Edward W. Soja

Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City

Gyan Prakash

Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story

W. Edward Orser

Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, and Lawrence J. Vale

Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001

David L. Pike

Saving Our Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America

William W. Goldsmith

From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region

Diane Sicotte

The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York

Dennis R. Judd

Dealing with Dysfunction: Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector

Jorrit De Jong

Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City

AndrŽs Duany and Emily Talen

Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement

Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, and Ernesto Lopez-Morales

Neighborhood Technologies: Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks

Tobias Harks and Sebastian Vehlken

Transforming Cities: Urban Interventions in Public Space

Kristin Feireiss and Oliver Hamm

Ethics for Architects: 50 Dilemmas of Professional Practice

Thomas Fisher

How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification

Peter Moskowitz

Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities

Peter Harnik

The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade

Masahisa Fujita, Paul Krugman, and Anthony J. Venables

Localism and Neighbourhood Planning: Power to the People?

Sue Brownhill and Quintin Bradley

Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City

Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay

Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City

Derek S. Hyra

Why Detroit Matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City

Brian Doucet

In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis

David Madden

Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning

Melody L. Hoffman

Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness

Irene Glasser and Rae Bridgman

Slums: The History of a Global Injustice

Alan Mayne

From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing: Interaction of Communities, Residents and Activists

Graham Cairns

Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove

The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide

Lawrence Lanahan

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

David Harvey

Psychogeography

Merlin Coverley

Faith on the Avenue: Religion on a City Street

Katie Day

A New History of Modern Architecture

Colin Davies

L'architecture Sauvage: Asger Jorn's Critique and Concept of Architecture

Asger Jorn and Ruth Baumeister

Cities of Power: The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global

Göran Therborn

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