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 American City from the Civil War to the New Deal
Charter of the New Urbanism
Michael Leccese et al.
Cities of the World
Georg Braun et al.
The City in History
Lewis Mumford
The Concise Townscape
Gordon Cullen
The Concrete Dragon
Thomas J. Campanella
The Culture of Cities
Lewis Mumford
Design Like You Give a Damn
Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity, eds.
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
The Economy of Cities
Jane Jacobs
Energy and Form
Ralph L. Knowles
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture
Carl E. Schorske
The Highway and the City
Lewis Mumford
The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes
John Brinckerhoff Jackson
The Invention of Tradition
Eric Hobsbawm et al.
Le Droit à la ville (Right to the City)
Henri Lefebvre
Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times
Philip Kasinitz