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Urban Planning and Design Books by ASLA Members
Planning, design, and how-to books on climate resilience, sustainable urban development and transportation, community engagement, and other key urban issues.
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Airport Landscape
Urban Ecologies in the Aerial Age / Sonja Duempelmann, Charles Waldheim (Boston : Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2016).
Completing Our Streets
The Transition to Safe and Inclusive Transportation Networks / Barbara McCann (Island Press, 2013).
The Comprehensive Plan
Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Communities for the 21st Century / David Rouse and Rocky Piro (Routledge, 2021).
Creating Vibrant Public Spaces
Streetscape Design in Commercial and Historic Districts / Ned Crankshaw (Washington : Island Press, 2009).
Design as Democracy
Techniques for Collective Creativity / by David de la Pena, Diane Jones Allen, Randolph T. Hester Jr., Jeffrey Hou, Laura J. Lawson, and Marcia J. McNally, eds. (Washington : Island Press, 2017).
Design by Fire
Resistance, Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene / Emily Schlickman and Brett Milligan (Routledge, 2023).
Designing Urban Agriculture
A Complete Guide to the Planning, Design, Construction, Maintenance and Management of Edible Landscapes / April Philips (Wiley, 2013).
Ecological Urbanism
Mohsen Mostafavi; Gareth Doherty (Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller, 2016).
Good Energy
Renewable Power and the Design of Everyday Life / Jared Green (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021).
Green Metropolis
The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History, and Design / Elizabeth Barlow Rogers (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016).
Housing As If People Mattered
Site Design Guidelines for Medium-Density Family Housing / Clare Cooper Marcus and Wendy Sarkissian ; with Sheena Wilson and Donald Perlgut (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1986).
Landscape as Urbanism
A General Theory / Charles Waldheim (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2016).
Landscape Infrastructure
Case Studies by SWA / Ying-Yu Hung (Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, 2013).
The Landscape Urbanism Reader
Charles Waldheim, editor (New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2006).
Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town
Real Estate Development from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway / Witold Rybczynski (Scribner, 2007).
Lost in the Transit Desert
Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form / Diane Jones Allen (New York : Routledge, 2018).
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Making Plans
How to Engage with Landscape, Design, and the Urban Environment / Frederick R. Steiner (University of Texas, 2018).
Master-Planned Communities
Lessons from the Developments of Chuck Cobb : Early Forms of Smart Growth / Kalvin Platt (Washington, D.C. : Urban Land Institute, 2011).
Measuring Landscapes
A Planner's Handbook / Andre Botequilha Leitao, Joseph Miller, Jack Ahern, Kevin McGarigal
The Nature of Urban Design
A New York Perspective on Resilience / Alexandros Washburn (Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2013).
New Geographies, 3
Urbanisms of Color / Gareth Doherty (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010).
Paradoxes of Green
Landscapes of a City-state / Gareth Doherty (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017).
Pedestrian Malls, Streetscapes and Urban Spaces
Harvey M. Rubenstein (New York : Wiley, 1992).
People Places
Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space / edited by Clare Cooper Marcus and Carolyn Francis (New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990).
Planning and Urban Design Standards
Frederick Steiner , Kent Butler , American Planning Association (Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, 2007).
Principles of Urban Retail Planning and Development
Robert J. Gibbs (Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2012).
Re-Creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging
Pauline S. Abbott (Baltimore, Md. : Health Professions Press, 2009).
Salty Urbanism
A Design Manual for Sea Level Rise Adaptation in Urban Areas / Jeffrey E. Huber (ORO Editions, 2024).
The Smart Growth Manual
Andres Duany, Jeff Speck with Mike Lydon (New York : McGraw-Hill, 2010).
Social Urbanism
Reframing Spatial Design - Discourses from Latin America / María Bellalta (San Francisco: Applied Research and Design, 2020).
Structures of Coastal Resilience
Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Guy Nordenson, and Julia Chapman (Island Press, 2018).
Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream / Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck (New York : North Point Press, 2010).
The Topography of Wellness
How Health and Disease Shaped the American Landscape / Sara Jensen Carr (University of Virginia Press, 2021).
Trails for the Twenty-First Century
Planning, Design, and Management Manual for Multi-use Trails / Charles A. Flink, Kristine, Olka, Robert M. Searns ; Rails-to-Trails Conservancy (Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2001).
Urban Design and the Bottom Line
Optimizing the Return on Perception / Dennis Jerke, Douglas R. Porter, Terry J. Lassar (Washington, D.C. : the Urban Land Institute, 2008).
Urban Ecology for Citizens and Planners
Gail Hansen and Joseli Macedo (Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2021).
Urban Open Space
Designing for User Needs / Mark Francis (Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2003).
Village Homes
A Community by Design / Mark Francis (Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2003).
Walkable City
How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time / Jeff Speck (New York : North Point Press, 2013).
Why Cities Need Large Parks
Large Parks in Large Cities / Richard Murray, ed. (Routledge, 2021).
Wild By Design
Strategies for Creating Life-enhancing Landscapes / Margie Ruddick (Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2016).
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