Recommended Urbanist Media

Books on Urbanism

The Classics:

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities – Jane Jacobs (1961)
• Suburban Nation – Duany et al (2001)
• Home from Nowhere – James Howard Kunstler (1996)
• Architecture: Choice or Fate – Leon Krier

Modern Core Curriculum:

• Walkable Cities by Jeff Speck (his TED Talk on the same subject)
• Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution by Charles Marohn (his TED Talk)
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Other Great Urbanist Reads:

• The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup (2005) (summary http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/04/04/donald-shoup/free-parking-or-free-markets/)
• Happy City by Charles Montgomery 
• Tactical Urbanism by Lydon and Garcia; see also free online guides: http://tacticalurbanismguide.com/guides/
• The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William Whyte founder of PPS (this can be hard to find outside of academic libraries; there is also a movie which is both informative and wryly amusing)
• Retrofitting Suburbia by Ellen Dunham-Jones
• Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith by Eric Jacobsen

Urbanism-Adjacent:

• Last Child in the Woods – Richard Louv
• Boys in the Boat – This is not about Urbanism but a fascinating window into the history of how people lived in prior generations including a variety of household types.
• The Rule of Nobody by Philip  K Howard – Not urbanism-specific but a cautionary tale about regulation gone awry.
• The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
• The Wealth of Cities by John Norquist

Florida Planning History:

• Florida: The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
• The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

Great Urbanism Watches

• Eliza’s Playlist of Great Urbanist Talks on Youtube

• The Human Scale by Jan Gehl et al (film)

• English Traffic Designer on Shared Streets (1 hr): CNU22: Ben Hamilton-Baillie

• The Smart Math of Mixed Use Development: The City Shaped: Joseph Minicozzi at TEDxAsheville (also available as an article)

• Taking safety to the next level in New York City: New York’s streets? Not so mean any more with Janette Sadik-Khan