Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.
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The Making of Classical Edinburgh 1750–1840
Alexander John Brown Youngson
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Family and Kinship in East London
Michael Young et al.
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Everyday America
Chris Wilson et al.
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Town Planning in Practice
Raymond Unwin
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Patrick Geddes in India
Jacqueline Tyrwhitt
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Design Like You Give a Damn
Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity, eds.
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Twenty Minutes in Manhattan
Michael Sorkin
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American Architecture and Urbanism
Vincent Scully
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Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Carl E. Schorske
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As I Was Saying
Colin Rowe
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Supercrit #2—Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Kester Rattenbury et al.
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You Have to Pay for the Public Life
Charles, W. Moore et al.
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Urban Traffic: A Function of Land Use
R. B. Mitchell et al.
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Politics, Planning, and the Public Interest
Martin Meyerson et al.
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Design with Nature
Ian McHarg
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Designs on the Land
Alex MacLean
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The Image of the City
Kevin Lynch
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Le Droit à la ville (Right to the City)
Henri Lefebvre
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Charter of the New Urbanism
Michael Leccese et al.
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Three Essays on Town Planning
Paul Kriesis
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The Beer Can by the Highway
John A. Kouwenhoven
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History Builds the Town
Arthur Korn
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Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times
Philip Kasinitz
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
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Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
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The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
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Location and Space Economy
Walter Isard
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