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
Charles Hoch, Linda Dalton and Frank So - Practice of Local Government Planning (3rd Edition), "The Green Book/Green Bible"
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
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
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 our knowledge he did not write any books but we have many of his articles/writings on file.
Books on the "To Buy" List
Alexander Garvin - Parks, Recreation and Open Space: A Twenty-First Century Agenda
Bernard Tschumi - Manhattan Transcripts: Theoretical Projects
Boris Pushkarev - Urban Space for Pedestrians
Carol Barrett - Everyday Ethics for Practicing Planners
Caroline Emerson - Make Way for the Thruway
Christopher Alexander et al. - A New Theory of Urban Design
Christopher Alexander - A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander - The Oregon Experiment
Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed - American Skyline
Clarence Stein - Toward New Towns for America
Colin Buchanan - Traffic in Towns: A Study of the Long Term Problems of Traffic in Urban Areas
Colin McAdam - Some Great Thing
Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter - Collage City
David Osborne and Ted Gaebler - Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector
Donald Shoup - The High Cost of Free Parking
Donella Meadows et al. - The Limits to Growth
Donna Erickson - MetroGreen: Connecting Open Space in North American Cities
Douglas Farr - Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature
Edmund Bacon - Design of Cities
Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson - Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
Forster Ndubisi - Ecological Planning: A Historical and Comparative Synthesis
Gordon Cullen - Townscape
Hamid Shirvani - The Urban Design Process
Howard Frumkin et al. - Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities
Jan Gehl - Life between Buildings: Using Public Space
Jan Gehl and Lars Gemzoe - New City Spaces, Strategies and Projects
Jane Jacobs - Dark Age Ahead
Jane Jacobs - The Economy of Cities
John Friedmann - Planning in the Public Domain: From Knowledge to Action
John Nolen - New Towns for Old
John Punter - The Vancouver Achievement
Kevin Lynch - (A Theory of) Good City Form
Lee Sobel et al. - Greyfields into Goldfields: Dead Malls become Living Neighborhoods
Patrick Geddes - Cities in Evolution
Paul Zucker - The ABZ's of Planning Management (2nd Edition)
Peter Calthorpe - The Regional City
Peter Hall - Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century
Project for Public Spaces - How To Turn a Place Around: A Handbook for Creating Successful Public Spaces
Ralph Knowles - The Ritual House
Randall Arendt - Rural by Design
Ray Oldenburg - Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories about the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities
Raymond Unwin - Town Planning in Practice
Reid Ewing - Developing Successful New Communities
Resa Steindel Brown - The Call to Brilliance: A True Story to Inspire Parents and Educators
Richard T.T. Forman, Wenche Dramstad, and James D. Olson - Landscape Ecology Principles in Landscape Architecture and Land-Use Planning
Richard T.T. Forman - Road Ecology: Science and Solutions
Richard T.T. Forman - Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning Beyond the City
Rob H. G. Jongman and Gloria Pungetti - Ecological Networks and Greenways: Concept, Design, Implementation
Spiro Kostof - The City Assembled: The Elements of Urban Form Through History
Spiro Kostof - The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
Stuart Chase - The Tragedy of Waste
Suzaan Boettger - Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties
Thomas Adams - Outline of Town and City Planning
Thomas Adams - Rural Planning and Development
Timothy Beatley - Green Urbanism: Learning From European Cities
Warren Jones and Natalie Macris - Career Worth Planning: Starting Out and Moving Ahead in the Planning Profession
William Hollingsworth Whyte - Is Anybody Listening?
