Invited designers and commentators have chosen these as the books that inspire them and that have shaped their worldview or their ideas about design.
57 books
The Making of Classical Edinburgh 1750–1840
Alexander John Brown Youngson
Design Like You Give a Damn
Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity, eds.
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Carl E. Schorske
Supercrit #2—Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Kester Rattenbury et al.
The Private Future
Martin Pawley
The Wealth of Cities
John Norquist
The City in History
Lewis Mumford
The Culture of Cities
Lewis Mumford
The Highway and the City
Lewis Mumford
You Have to Pay for the Public Life
Charles, W. Moore et al.
Urban Traffic: A Function of Land Use
R. B. Mitchell et al.
Politics, Planning, and the Public Interest
Martin Meyerson et al.
Theorizing the City
Setha M. Low
Le Droit à la ville (Right to the City)
Henri Lefebvre
Charter of the New Urbanism
Michael Leccese et al.
Energy and Form
Ralph L. Knowles
Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times
Philip Kasinitz
The Economy of Cities
Jane Jacobs
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes
John Brinckerhoff Jackson