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This is just a sample of the hundreds of books in my collection which inform my perspectives and work.

Far beyond cities and urban planning, I also have old and new material on business, leadership, financial planning, the education system, and much more.

Feel free to contact me with a special project you'd like me to consider. (email:
myron@cityplanner.ca)

Books in the Collection
  • Alain de Botton - The Architecture of Happiness
  • Aldo Leopold - A Sand County Almanac
  • Alexander Garvin - The American City: What Works and What Doesn't
  • Alexander Garvin et al. - Urban Parks and Open Space
  • Alice Sparberg Alexiou - Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary
  • Allan B. Jacobs - Great Streets
  • Allan B. Jacobs - Making City Planning Work
  • Allan B. Jacobs - The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards
  • Andrea Palladio - The Four Books of Architecture
  • Andreas Faludi - A Reader in Planning Theory
  • Andres Duany et al. - Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
  • Andy Bryner and Dawna Markova - An Unused Intelligence: Physical Thinking for 21st Century Leadership
  • August Heckscher - Open Spaces: The Life of American Cities
  • Benton MacKaye - The New Exploration: A Philosophy of Regional Planning
  • Bernard Rudofsky - Streets for People
  • Bert Sperling and Peter Sander - Best Places to Raise Your Family: The Top 100 Affordable Communities in the U.S.
  • Bert Sperling and Peter Sander - Cities Ranked and Rated (2nd Edition)
  • Bonnie Kahn - Cosmopolitan Culture: The Gilt-Edged Dream of a Tolerant City
  • Bruce McClendon and Ray Quay - Mastering Change: Winning Strategies for Effective City Planning
  • Camillo Sitte, George R. Collins, and Christiane Crasemann Collins - Camillo Sitte: The Birth of Modern City Planning, With a Translation of the 1889 Austrian Edition of his City Planning According to Artistic Principles
  • Caroline Emerson - Make Way for the Thruway
  • Charles Hoch, Linda Dalton and Frank So - Practice of Local Government Planning (3rd Edition), "The Green Book/Green Bible"
  • Christopher Alexander - A Pattern Language
  • Christopher Alexander - The Timeless Way of Building
  • Colin McAdam - Some Great Thing
  • David Ammons - Municipal Benchmarks
  • David Engwicht - Reclaiming Our Cities and Towns: Better Living With Less Traffic
  • David Engwicht - Street Reclaiming: Creating Livable Streets and Vibrant Communities
  • David Sucher - City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village
  • David Tracey - Guerrilla Gardening: A Manualfesto
  • Dolores Hayden - Redesigning the American Dream
  • Donald Appleyard - Livable Streets
  • Donald Krueckeberg and Arthur Silvers - Urban Planning Analysis: Methods and Models
  • Duane Elgin - Voluntary Simplicity: An Ecological Lifestyle That Promotes Personal and Social Renewal
  • E. F. Schumacher - Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
  • Edward Tenner - Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences
  • Eric Schlosser - Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
  • Erik Larson - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America
  • Ebenezer Howard - Garden Cities of To-Morrow
  • Edmund Bacon - Design of Cities
  • Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gail Snyder - Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States
  • Francis Stuart Chapin - Urban Land Use Planning
  • Frank Lloyd Wright - The Future of Architecture
  • Freada Kapor Klein - Giving Notice: Why the Best and Brightest are Leaving the Workplace and How You Can Help them Stay
  • Frederick Winslow Taylor - The Principles of Scientific Management
  • Friedrich August Hayek - The Road to Serfdom
  • Frigyes (Fred) Agoston Schwilgin - Town Planning Guidelines
  • Gordon Cullen - The Concise Townscape
  • Grady Clay - Close-Up: How to Read the American City
  • Grady Clay - Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape
  • Hamid Shirvani - The Urban Design Process
  • Harvey Perloff - Education for Planning
  • Herbert Gans - The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans
  • Herbert Smith - The Citizen's Guide to Planning
  • Ian McHarg - Design With Nature
  • J. Brian McLoughlin - Urban and Regional Planning: A Systems Approach
  • Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Les Hewitt - The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Certainty
  • James Howard Kunstler - Geography of Nowhere
  • James Howard Kunstler - Home from Nowhere
  • James Howard Kunstler - The City In Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition
  • James Howard Kunstler - The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century
  • James Marston Fitch - American Building: The Environmental Forces That Shape It
  • Jan Carlzon - Moments of Truth
  • Jane Holtz Kay - Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back
  • Jane Jacobs - Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life
  • Jane Jacobs - Death and Life of Great American Cities
  • Jane Jacobs - Systems of Survival
  • Jane Jacobs - The Nature of Economies
  • Jenifer Fox - Your Child's Strengths: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
  • Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin - Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence
  • Joel Garreau - Edge City: Life on the New Frontier
  • John Beardsley - Earthworks and Beyond: Contemporary Art in the Landscape
  • John Degrove - Land, Growth & Politics
  • John Friedmann – Retracking America
  • John Brinckerhoff Jackson - Discovering the Vernacular Landscape
  • John Maxwell - The 360 Degree Leader
  • John Norquist - The Wealth of Cities
  • Jonathan Barnett - Urban Design as Public Policy: Practical Methods for Improving Cities
  • Karl Albrecht - At America's Service: How Your Company Can Join the Customer Service Revolution
  • Karl Albrecht - The Northbound Train: Finding the Purpose, Setting the Direction, Shaping the Destiny of Your Organization
  • Ken Blanchard - Gung Ho! Turn On the People in Any Organization
  • Ken Robinson - The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
  • Kenneth Halpern - Downtown USA: Urban Design in Nine American Cities
  • Kenneth T. Jackson - Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
  • Kevin Lynch - Image of the City
  • Kevin Lynch - Site Planning
  • Laura Wood Roper - FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted
  • Lawrence Miller - American Spirit: Visions of a New Corporate Culture
  • Le Corbusier - Towards a New Architecture
  • Lewis Mumford - Roots of Contemporary American Architecture: 37 Essays from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
  • Lewis Mumford - Sticks & Stones: A Study of American Architecture and Civilization
  • Lewis Mumford - The Culture of Cities
  • Lewis Mumford - The Urban Prospect
  • Lynn Sloman - Car Sick: Solutions for Our Car-Addicted Culture
  • Malcolm Gladwell - The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
  • Malcolm Knowles - Self-Directed Learning: A Guide for Learners and Teachers
  • Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman - First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently
  • Marcus Buckingham - Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
  • Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton - Now, Discover Your Strengths: How to Build Your Strengths and the Strengths of Every Person in Your Organization
  • Mark Cramer - Funkytowns USA: The Best Alternative, Eclectic, Irreverent and Visionary Places
  • Marvin Weisbord - Discovering Common Ground: How Future Search Conferences Bring People Together to Achieve Breakthrough Innovation, Empowerment, Shared Vision, and Collaborative Action
  • Marvin Weisbord - Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
  • Marvin Weisbord - Future Search: An Action Guide to Finding Common Ground in Organizations and Communities
  • Marvin Weisbord - Productive Workplaces: Organizing and Managing for Dignity, Meaning, and Community
  • Mel Scott - American City Planning Since 1890: A History Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the American Institute of Planners
  • Melville Branch - Comprehensive City Planning: Introduction & Explanation
  • Michael Corbett - Find It, Fix It, Flip It!
  • Michael Hammer and James Champy - Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
  • Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
  • Michael Shuman - The Small-Mart Revolution
  • Patricia Schultz - 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: A Traveler's Life List
  • Patricia Schultz - 1,000 Places To See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die
  • Paul Goodman and Percival Goodman - Communitas
  • Paul Zucker - What Your Planning Professors Forgot to Tell You
  • Peter Calthorpe - The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream
  • Peter Hall - The World Cities
  • Peter Harnik - Inside City Parks (autographed)
  • Philip Langdon - Better Place to Live
  • Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
  • Randal O'Toole - The Vanishing Automobile and Other Urban Myths: How Smart Growth Will Harm American Cities
  • Ray Oldenburg - The Great Good Place: Cafes Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salong, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
  • Raymond Curran - Architecture and the Urban Experience
  • Reid Ewing - Best Development Practices
  • Richard Babcock - The Zoning Game: Municipal Practices and Policies
  • Richard Florida - The Flight Of The Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
  • Richard Florida - The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community And Everyday Life
  • Richard Florida - Who's Your City
  • Richard Harris - Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960
  • Richard Laermer - Trendspotting: Think Forward, Get Ahead, Cash in on the Future
  • Robert Burchell - Fiscal Impact Handbook: Estimating Local Costs and Revenues of Land Development
  • Robert E. Kelley - How to Be a Star at Work: 9 Breakthrough Strategies You Need to Succeed
  • Robert Lynd and Helen Lynd - Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture
  • Robert Putnam - Better Together: Restoring the American Community
  • Robert Putnam - Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
  • Roberta Brandes Gratz - The Living City: How America's Cities are Being Revitalizedby Thinking Small in a Big Way (autographed)
  • Roberta Brandes Gratz - Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown (autographed)
  • Silvia Barry Sutton - Civilizing American Cities: A Selction of Frederick Law Olmsted's Writings on City Landscapes
  • Sarah Susanka - The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way we Really Live
  • Scott Berg - Grand Avenues
  • Scott Frank and Andy Heller - Buy Even Lower: The Regular People's Guide to Real Estate Riches
  • Spiro Kostof - America by Design
  • Terry Pindell - A Good Place to Live: America's Last Migration
  • The Rockefeller Foundation - Century of the City: No Time to Lose
  • Thomas Friedman - Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America
  • Timothy Beatley - Ethical Land Use: Principles of Policy and Planning
  • Timothy Beatley - Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age
  • Todd Litman and Suzanne Kort - The Best Bike Rides in the Pacific Northwest: British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, Washington
  • Todd Litman and Suzanne Kort - Washington: Off the Beaten Path/a Guide to Unique Places
  • Tom Rand - Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save Our World
  • Tony Hiss - The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing with out Radically Changing Cities and Countryside
  • United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development - Our Common Future
  • Victor Gruen - The Heart of our Cities
  • Vitruvius Pollio - The Ten Books on Architecture
  • W.G. Roeseler - Successful American Urban Plans
  • Walt Disney - How it Works in the City
  • William Hollingsworth Whyte - City: Rediscovering the Center
  • William Hollingsworth Whyte - The Last Landscape
  • William Hollingsworth Whyte - The Organization Man
  • William Hollingsworth Whyte - The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
  • William McDonough and Michael Braungart - Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
  • William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel - Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
  • William C. Taylor and Polly Labarre - Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win
  • Witold Rybczynski - A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
  • Witold Rybczynski - Home: A Short History of an Idea
  • Wolf Von Eckardt - A Place to Live: The Crisis of the Cities
  • Wolf Von Eckardt - Back to the Drawing Board: Planning Livable Cities
  • Honorable Mention: Frederick Gage Todd - To my knowledge he did not write any books but I have many of his articles/writings on file.

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