Suggested Reading, 2021 Books

The CharacterTown.org Suggested Readings includes books about a variety of subjects, each of which contributes to a holistic thought process about the art and science of city building. Titles relate to:

  • City Planning, per se
  • City Histories
  • Management, usually confined to the business sector, but useful as the science of allocating scarce resources; what’s growth management, project management or performance management without “management”?
  • Technologies and their applications to cities
  • Specific buildings, spaces, places and facilities

Titles in “Yellow” indicate that a Book Review has been posted in the CharacterTowns.org. Archives.

 

APA’s List of Essential Books.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the American planning movement, the American Planning Association has created a list of the books essential to planning.

100 Essential Books of Planning – American Planning …

https://www.planning.org/…/greatbooks/

CharacterTowns.org’s Suggested Readings:

  1. “Fire” a poem by Judy Brown 1st ed. 2019 Edition, Jaime P. Luque, Nuriddin Ikromov, William B. Noseworthy. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland,  (April 1, 2019).
  2. A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future, Daniel C. Esty  (Editor), Ingrid C. Burke (Foreword), Yale University Press, 
  3. Broadband Plan for Small Cities and Towns, Blair Levin, The Benton Foundation, 2015.
  4. A Clearing in the Distance, Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century, Witold Rybczynski, Scribner, 480 pages, 1999.
  5. A Generosity of Spirit, The Early History of the Research Triangle Park, Albert N. Link, The Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, 1995.
  6. A Land Remembered, Patrick D. Smith, Pineapple Press, Inc., Sarasota, 1984.
  7. Affordable Housing Development: Financial Feasibility, Tax Increment Financing and Tax Credits, Alexander Communications Group, Inc., Mountain Lakes NJ, 2017
  1. America’s Main Street Hotels: Transiency and Community in the Early Auto Age, John A. Jakle andKeith A. Sculle, University of Tennessee Press,
  2. American City: Detroit Architecture, 1845-2005 (American City Series), Robert Sharoff(Author), William Zbaren (Photographer),  Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 2005.
  3. American City: St. Louis Architecture: Three Centuries of Design (American City Series), Robert Sharoff(Author), William Zbaren (Photographer), The Images Publishing Group, Pty Ltd, Victoria, Australia, 2012
  1. America’s New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention? (Creating the North American Landscape), Larry Ford, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, in cooperation with The Center for American Places, Santa Fe NM and Harrisonburg VA. 2003
  2. Angel City, Patrick D. Smith, Pineapple Press, Inc., Sarasota, 2012.
  3. Arrival City, How the Largest Migration in History Reshaped Our World, Doug Saunders, Pantheon Books, New York, 2010.
  4. Backdoor Revolution: The Definitive Guide to ADU Development, Kol Peterson, Accessory Dwelling Strategies, LLC, Portland, 355 pages, 2018.
  5. Better Together, Restoring the American Community, Robert D. Putnam and Lewis M. Feldstein, Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 318 pages, 2003.
  6. Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning, Timothy Beatley, Island Press, Center for Resource Economics, Washington DC, 2011.
  7. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert D. Putnam, Simon & Schuster, 2000.
  8. Branding Your City, CEOs for Cities, Online: ceosforcities.org , 2006.
  9. Brunelleschi’s Dome, How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, Ross King, Bloomsbury USA, New York, 2000.
  10. Building a Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America, Quint Studer, Be the Bulb Publishing, Janesville WI,
  11. Building Florida’s Future: State Strategies for Regional Cooperation, Urban Land Institute, Washington, 2005.
  12. Camillo Sitte, The Birth of Modern City Planning, George R. Collins and Christiane Crasemann Collins, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, NY, 440 pages, 1986.
  13. Career Worth Planning: Starting Out and Moving Ahead in the Planning Profession1st Edition, Warren Jones (Author), Natalie Macris (Author),  Routledge, 2002.
  14. Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System. (Russell Sage Foundation Centennial Series), Douglas S. Massey,
  15. Celebrating the Third Place, Inspiring Stories About the “Good Great Places” at the Heart of Our Communities, Edited by Ray Oldenburg, Malowe & Company, New York, 224 pages, 2001.
  16. Character Main Streets, A Practitioner’s Guide for Planning Downtowns in Small Cities and Towns, Bill Kercher, wckplanning publications, Orlando, 149 pages, 2019.
  17. Character Neighborhoods, A Practitioner’s Guide for Planning Neighborhoods in Small Cities and Towns, Bill Kercher, wckplanning publications, Orlando, 160 pages, 2020.
  18. Character Towns, A Practitioner’s Guide for Planning Small Cities and Towns, Bill Kercher, wckplanning publications, Orlando, 209 pages, 2017.
  19. Cities in American History, Edited by Kenneth T. Jackson and Stanley K. Schultz, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 508 pages, 1972.
  20. Cities of Knowledge, Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley, Margaret Pugh O’Mara, Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2005.
  21. Cities of Tomorrow, The Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century, Peter Hall, Blackwell Publishing, Victoria, Third Edition, 2002.
  22. Cities, Lawrence Halprin, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, [1963], Revised Edition, 4th printing 1978.
  23. Citistate Seattle, Shaping a Modern Metropolis, Mark Hinshaw, Planners Press, American Planning Association, 1999.
  24. Citistates, How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World, Neal R. Peirce with Curtis W. Johnson and John Stuart Hall, Seven Locks Press, Washington D.C., 359 pages, 1993.
  25. City Building: Nine Planning Principles for the 21st Century,John Lund Kriken, Philip Enquist and Richard Rapaport , Princeton Architectural Press, NY, 2010.
  26. City Hall: Masterpieces of American Civic Architecture, Arthur Drooker(Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., Atglen, Pennsylvania,192 pages, 2021.
  27. City Life, Witold Rybczynski, A Touchstone Book, 1995.
  28. City of the Century: the Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, Donald L. Miller, Touchstone, New York, 1996.
  29. Civic Revolutionaries, Igniting the Passion for Change in America’s Communities, Douglas Henton, John Melville, Kim Walesh, John Wiley& Sons, Inc., San Francisco, 2004.
  30. Classic Readings in Architecture, Jay M Stein and Kent F. Spreckelmeyer, Editors, WCB McGraw-Hill, 1999.
  31. Common Interest Communities, Stephen E. Barton and Carol J. Silverman, Institute of Government Studies Press, University of California, Berkeley, 1994.
  32. Community and the Politics of Place, Daniel Kemmis, The University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.
  33. Community Character, Principles for Design and Planning, Lane H. Kendig with Bret C. Keast, Island Press, Washington, 187 pages, 2010.
  34. Competitive Strategy, Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors, Michael E Porter, The Free Press, New York, 1980.
  35. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town,1st Edition. Charles L. Marohn Jr., John Wiley  and Sons, Hoboken NJ, 1st edition, 272 pp, 2021.
  1. Creating a Vibrant City Center, Urban Design and Regeneration Principles, Cy Paumier, Urban Land Institute, Washington DC, 2004.
  2. Customer Service.Gov: Technology Tools and Customer Service Principles for Innovative and Entrepreneurial Government, Bruce McClendon (Author), Mac Birch (Contributor), Ray Quay (Contributor), CityGate Press, Folsom CA, 490 pages, 2013.
  3. Defensible Space: Deterring Crime and Building Community, Henry Cisneros, DIANE Publishing, 1995.
  4. Design Downtown For Women (Men Will Follow), David Feehan, Drew McLellan, Sheila Grant, Carol Becker, River Bend Publishing, Waukee IA,
  5. Design of Cities: Revised Edition, Edmund N. Bacon, The Penguin Group, NY, 1976.
  6. Design with Nature,25th Edition, Ian L. McHarg, Published by Natural History Press, 1971, then by John Wiley & Sons, 1992.
  7. Designing a City for Learning: Patterson, NJ, Roy Strickland, Editor, 2001.
  8. Designing Urban Corridors, Planning Advisory Service #418, Kirk, R. Bishop, American Planning Association, Chicago IL. 1989.
  9. Detroit, An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff, The Penguin Press, NY, 2013.
  10. Developing Affordable Housing: A Practical Guide for Nonprofit Organizations(3rd Edition), Bennett L. Hecht, John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
  11. Developing Sustainable Planned Communities, Edited by Jo Allen Gause, Primary Authors: Richard Franco, Jo Allen Gause, Jim Heid, Jr., Steven Kellenberg, Edward T. McMahon, Judi G. Schweitzer, Daniel Stone, Urban Land Institute, Washington, 2007.
  12. Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations, Alex Harris andBrett Harris, Multnomah Books, Colorado Springs CO, 2016.
  13. Edge City, Life on the New Frontier, Joel Garreau, An Anchor Book published by Doubleday, New York, 548 pages, 1991.
  14. Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs, Robert Kanigel, Robert A.Knopf, New York, 2016.
  15. Florida Statutes, Chapter 163, Intergovernmental Programs, State of Florida, 2013.
  16. Florida Statutes, Chapter 187, State Comprehensive Plan, State of Florida, 2013.
  17. Florida’s Energy Future: Opportunities for Our Economy, Environment and Security, A Report to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (Executive Summary Only), Florida Solar Energy Center and CPI Consulting, 2004.
  18. Focused Growth Alternatives: Mixed Use Case Studies, City of Spokane, Leland Consulting; 1999.
  19. For the Love of Cities, The Love Affair Between People and Their Places, Peter Kageyama, Creative City Productions, 233 pages, 2011.
  20. Future Shock, Alvin Toffler, Random House, New York, 1970.
  21. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, James Charles Collins, HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., New York, 2001.
  22. Government 3.0 – Next Generation Government Technology Infrastructure and Services: Roadmaps, Enabling Technologies & Challenges (Public Administration and Information Technology)1st ed. 2017 Edition, Adegboyega Ojo (Editor), Jeremy Millard (Editor), Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
  23. Grand Central, How a Train Station Transformed America, Sam Roberts, Grand Central Publishing, NY, 303 pages, 2013.
  24. Hot, Flat and Crowded, Why We Need a Green Revolution – And How It Can Renew America, Thomas L. Friedman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
  25. How Paris Became Paris, The Invention of the Modern City, Joan DeJean, Bloomsbury, NY, 2014. https://www.benton.org/blog/city-broadband-plans-one-vision-four-markets-four-issues
  1. I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan, Stetson Kennedy, 1954.
  2. In Search of Excellence : Lessons from America’s Best-Run Companies, Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr, Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., New York, 1982.
  3. John Nolen, Landscape Architect and City Planner, Bruce Stephenson, University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst, in association with the Library of Landscape History, 312 pp., 2015.
  4. Land Use Law in Florida, 1st Edition, Thomas Hawkins, Published June 29, 2021, Routledge.
  5. Leadership Legacies, Lessons Learned from Ten Real Estate Legends, Trish Riggs, Editor, Urban Land Institute, Washington, 2004.
  6. Lean Thinking 4.0: Enhance the Wisdom of People with the Power of Lean, Robert Brown, bp books, Mukilteo WA, 2019.
  7. Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space, Jan Gehl, Island Press, Washington DC, 201 pp., 2011.
  8. Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath, Ted Koppel, Crown Publishing Group, NY, 2015.
  9. Livable Streets, Appleyard, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1981.
  10. Local Incentives, State of California, California Office of Historic Preservation, Online: June 16, 2008.
  11. Losing Earth: A Recent History, Nathaniel Rich, MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, 2019.
  12. Louis Sullivan and the Chicago School, Nancy Frazer, Brompton Books Corporation, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1991.
  13. Man’s Emerging Mind, Man’s Progress Through Time – Trees, Ice, Flood, Atoms and The Universe, J. Berrill, Dobson Books Ltd, 1958.
  14. Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic, Inside One of the World’s Most Admired Service Organizations, Leonard L. Berry and Kent D. Seltman, McGraw-Hill Education, 2008.
  15. Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, Peter Drucker, Harper & Row, New York, 1974.
  16. Megatrends, Ten New Directions Transforming Our Lives, John Naisbitt, Warner Books, 1982.
  17. Missing Middle Housing, Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis, Daniel G. Parolek, Island Press, Washington, DC, 2020.
  18. Mixed-Use Development Handbook, ULI Development Handbook Series, Dean Schwanke, Project Director, Second Edition, Urban Land Institute, Washington, 2003.
  19. National Clearing House for Educational Facilities at the National Institute of Building Sciences, ncef.org, prepared under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, Washington, DC, ©2010.
  20. Neighborhood Planning, A Guide for Citizens and Planners, Bernie Jones, published in 1979 by CBS, in 1990 by the American Planning Association, in 2017 by Routledge, New York, 2017.
  21. New Cornerstone: Foundation for Florida’s 21st Century Economy, Florida Chamber Foundation, Tallahassee, Florida. Florida Chamber Foundation, September 2003.
  22. Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles of Post-Industrial Public Works, Hillary Brown, Island Press, Washington DC, 241 pages, 2014.
  23. No One’s World: The West, The Rising Rest and the Coming Global Turn, Charles A. Kupchan, Oxford University Press; 2012.
  24. Ogilvy on Advertising, David Ogilvy, Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, NY, 224 pp., 1985.
  25. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, Buckminster R. Fuller [1885-1983], Southern Illinois University Press, 1969. Pocket Book edition published November, 1970; 7th printing, October, 1974.
  26. Our Common Future, The World Commission of Environment and Development, Oxford University Press, 1987, reprinted 2009.
  27. Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America, James Fallows (Author), Deborah Fallows (Author), Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, NY, 2018.
  28. Outliers, The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2008.
  29. Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life, Eric Klinenberg, Crown Books, New York, 288 pages, 2018.
  30. Paris in the Twentieth Century, Jules Verne, Random House, (1863) 1996.
  31. Planning School Grounds for Outdoor Learning, Cheryl Wagner and Douglas Gordon, Hon. AIA, Avi Friedman, Edition 1, McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 2007.
  32. Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns, Designing and Retrofitting for Sustainability, Avi Friedman, 1st Edition, by Routledge, Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business, New York, 2014.
  33. Plastic Game Changer: How to Reduce Plastic in your Organization to Make a Difference to Plastic Pollution, Amanda Keetley, Less Plastic, 150 pages, June 5, 2019.
  34. Playing to Win, How Strategy Really Works,G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass., 2013.
  35. Power Failure, Politics, Patronage, and the Economic Future of Buffalo, New York, Diana Dillaway, Prometheus Books, 2006.
  36. Project Management for Planners, Terry A. Clark, AICP, PMP, first published by the American Planning Association, 2002; then Routledge, NY, 2017.  
  37. Project Management for the Design Professional: A Handbook for Architects, Engineers, and Interior Designers,Hardcover, David Burstein  (Author), Frank Stasiowski (Author), original copyright 1982, Whitney Library of Design, Billboard Publications, New York, new edition November 1, 1991.
  38. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters, Steven Pinker, 2021.
  39. Reaching for the Future, Creative Finance for Smaller Communities, Tom Murphy, Maureen McAvey and Bridget Lane, Urban Land Institute, Washington DC, 2016.
  40. Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small Scale Manufacturing, Ilana Preus, 2021.
  41. Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, 1st Edition, Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson. 2011.
  42. Regenerating Older Suburbs, Richard Peiser, Urban Land Institute, Washington D.C., 2007.
  43. Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs1st Edition, Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson, John Wiley % Sons, NJ, 304 pages, 2011.
  44. Roadmap to Strategic HR. Turning a Great Idea into a Business Reality, Ralph Christensen, AMACOM, a division of the American Management Association. 2006. Robert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett, Simon & Schuster, NY, 2020.
  1. Schools for Cities, Urban Strategies, Sharon Haar, Editor, National Endowment for the Arts, 2002.
  2. Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America’s Shores, Orrin H. Pilkey(Author), Keith C. Pilkey (Author), Duke University Press Books, 2019
  3. Seeing Trees, A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin, Sonja Dümpelmann, The Foundation for Landscape Studies and the Dean’s Research grant from the Harvard School of Design, 2019.
  4. Shaping Our Nation: How Surges of Migration Transformed America and Its Politics, Michael Barone, Crown Forum, New York, 302 pages, 2013.
  5. Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, Houghton Miffin, Boston, 1962.
  6. Situations and Strategies in American Land Use Planning, Thomas K. Rudel, ASA Rose Monograph Series, Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1989.
  7. Small Town Economic Development: Reports on Growth Strategies in Practice, by Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III(Author, Editor), Roger L Kemp (Editor), Jonathan Rosenthal (Editor) McFarland & Company, Jefferson N.C., 2017
  8. Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong, Robert Boyce, New York City: Public Affairs, 371 pages, 2014.
  9. Smart Machines, IBM’s Watson and the Era of Cognitive Computing, John E. Kelly III and Steve Hamm, Columbia University Press, New York, 2013.
  10. Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private, and Public Sectors,Georgia Levenson Keohane, The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2013.
  11. Some Kind of Paradise, A Chronicle of Man and the Land in Florida, Mark Derr, University Press of Florida, 1998.
  12. Special Report Smart Cities: A Toolkit for Leaders, Knowledge@Wharton with Tata Consultancy.
  13. Spirit of Milwaukee, Inc., City of Milwaukee, Spirit of; (2002), Online: June 9, 2008.
  14. Louis, The Evolution of an American Urban Landscape, Eric Sandweiss, Temple University Press, 2001.
  15. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek,  Portfolio; Illustrated edition, December 27, 2011.
  1. Startup Communities, Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City, Brad Feld, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, 202 pages, 2012.
  2. State-Building, Governance and the New World Order in the 21st Century, Francis Fukuyama, Cornell University Press, 2004.
  3. Strategic Planning in Local Government, A Casebook, edited by Roger L. Kemp, APA Planning Press, Chicago, 1992.
  4. Strategy for Real Estate Companies, Charles A. Hewlett and Gadi Kaufman, Urban Land Institute, Washington, 2008.
  5. Streetfight, Handbook for an Urban Revolution, Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow, Penguin Random House, LLC, New York, 350 pages, 2016.
  6. Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity, Charles L. Marohn Jr., John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken,
  7. Study of Global Population, 2000 – 2050, United Nations.
  8. Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation, Edward Glaeser, David Cutler, Penguin Press, 480 pp, 2021.
  9. Sustainable Residential Development: Planning and Design for Green Neighborhoods,Avi Friedman, McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, 2007.
  10. Sustainable Urbanism, Urban Design with Nature, Douglas Farr, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, New Jersey, 2008.
  11. Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character, Principles and Best Practices, Charles R. Wolfe, Contributor: Tigran Haas, Rowan and Littlefield Incorporated, 2021.
  12. Teach Yourself Sociology, Stephen Moore(Author), Stephen P. Sinclair (Author), Teach Yourself,
  13. Ten Principles for Rebuilding Neighborhood Retail, Michael D. Beyard, Michael Pawlukiewicz, Alex Bond, Urban Land Institute, Washington D.C., 2003.
  14. Ten Principles for Reinventing America’s Suburban Strips, Michael D. Beyard and Michael Pawlukiewicz, Urban Land Institute, 2001.
  15. The 10,000 Year Explosion, How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution, Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending, Basic Books of the Perseus Books Group, 2009.
  16. The Architectural Pattern Book: A Tool for Building Great Neighborhoods, Urban Design Associates, Norton Architecture, undated.
  17. The Age of Spiritual Machines, When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, Ray Kurzweil, Penguin Putnam, Inc., NY, 388 pages, 1999.
  18. The Art of Being Unreasonable, Lessons in Unconventional Thinking, Eli Broad, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.
  19. The Art of the Long View, Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World, Peter Schwartz, Currency Doubleday, 1991.
  20. The Ascent of Man, Bronowski, Little, Brown and Company, 1973.
  21. The Big Nine, How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machine Could Warp Humanity. Amy Webb, Public Affairs, Hachette Book Group, NY, 2019.
  22. The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840 – 1917, Jon A. Peterson, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 2003.
  23. The Business of Affordable Housing: Ten Developers’ Perspectives, Richard Haughey  Urban Land Institute, Washington D.C., 2007.
  24. The Character of Towns, An Approach to Conservation, Roy Worskett ARIBA AMTPI, The Architectural Press, London, 271 pages, 1969.
  25. The City Beautiful Movement, William H. Wilson, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 365 pages, 1989.
  26. The City in History, Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects, Lewis Mumford, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961.
  27. The City in Mind, Notes on the Urban Condition, James Howard Kunstler, The Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, 273 pages, 2001.
  28. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel P. Huntington, Touchstone, New York, 1996.
  29. The Cleveland Clinic Way, Lessons in Excellence From One of the World’s Leading Healthcare Organizations, Toby Cosgrove, MD., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014.
  30. The Company Town, The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy, Hardy Green, Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group; New York, 2010.
  31. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs, Vintage Books, 1961.
  32. The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community, Miles Orvell, University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
  33. The Economy of Cities, Jane Jacobs, Vintage Books, 1969.
  34. The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Penguin Books, 2005.
  35. The Evolution of Great World Cities: Urban Wealth and Economic Growth, Christopher Kennedy, Rotman – UTP Publishing, University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2011.
  36. The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last, by Tom Peters(Author), Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC, NY, 2018.
  37. The Fifth Discipline. The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization, Peter M. Senge, Currency Doubleday, New York, 1994. Revised: Paperback – Deckle Edge, March 21, 2006
  38. The Firm, The Story of McKinsey and Its Influence on American Business, Duff McDonald, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, NY, 2013.
  39. The Globalization Paradox, Democracy and the Future of the World Economy, Dani Rodrik, W.W.Norton & Company, NY, 2011.
  40. The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third, Edward N. Luttwak , The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1976.
  41. The Great Good Places, Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community , Ray Oldenburg, Marlowe & Company, New York, 336 pages, 1999.
  42. The Great Lakes Water Wars, Peter Annin, Island Press; 2nd edition 2009, Paperback 2018.
  43. The Great Reset, How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity, Richard Florida, HarperCollins Publishers, 2010.
  44. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris, David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, NY, 2011.
  45. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation[Paperback], Jon Gertner, The Penguin Press, NY, 2012.
  46. The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch, The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, 194 pages, 1960.
  47. The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World From Scratch, Lewis Dartnell, New York City: Penguin Press, 340 pages, 2014.
  48. The Limits of Growth, A Report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind, Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers William W. Behrens III, Universe Books, 1972.
  49. The Little Theatre on the Square : Four Decades of a Small-Town Equity Theatre, Beth Shervey PhD(Author), Peter PALMER (Foreword), Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale and Edwardsville, 124 pages, 2000.
  50. The Living City, Frank Lloyd Wright, A Mentor Book, 1958.
  51. The Metropolitan Revolution, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley, Brookings Institution Press, Washington DC, 2013.
  52. The Middle-Class City; Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876 – 1926, John Henry Hepp IV, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2003.
  53. The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet, Michael E. Mann,  PublicAffairs, 2021.
  54. The New Urbanism, Toward an Architecture of Community, Peter P. Katz and Vincent Scully Jr., McGraw-Hill Companies, New York,
  55. The Next 100 Years, A Forecast for the 21st Century, George Friedman, Anchor Books, A Division of Random House, New York, 253 pages, 2010.
  56. The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050, Joel Kotkin, The Penguin Group, New York, 2010.
  57. The Plan of Chicago, David Burnham and the Remaking of the American City, Carl Smith, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
  58. The Post-American World, Fareed Zakaria, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., NY, 2009
  59. The Power Broker, Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro, Vintage Books Edition, September 1975, copyright 1974, 1283 pages, 1974.
  60. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber, 1st Edition, Routledge, 320 pages, originally published in 1904, first re-published by Routledge in 1992.
  61. The Regional City, Planning for the End of Sprawl. Peter Calthorpe. William Fulton, Island Press, Washington, 304 pages, 2001.
  62. The Resilient City. How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster, Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella, Oxford University Press, 2005.
  63. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, Richard Florida, Basic Books, 2002.
  64. The Sanitary City: Environmental Services in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present, Martin V. Melosi, [Abridged][Paperback], The Pittsburgh Press, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, 2008 
  65. The Seamless City: A Conservative Mayor’s Approach to Urban Revitalization that Can Work Anywhere, Rick Baker, Regnery Press, Washington DC,
  66. The Small Town Planning Handbook, Thomas L. Daniels, John W. Keller, Mark P. Lapping, Katherine Daniels, James Segedy, Planners Press, American Planning Association, Chicago, 2007.
  67. The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future (Strong Ideas), Ben Green(Author), Jascha Franklin-Hodge (Foreword), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019.
  68. The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Barnes & Noble, NY, 157 pages, 2005, originally published 1762.
  69. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, William H. Whyte(Author, 1917 – 1999), Project for Public Spaces, New York, 1980.
  70. The Swamp, The Everglades, Florida and the Politics of Paradise, Michael Grunwald, Simon & Schuster, 2006.
  71. The Third Wave, The Classic Study of the Future, Alvin Toffler, A Bantam Book published in association with William Morrow & Co., Inc, New York, 1980.
  72. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells, Tim Duggan Books; 1st Edition, 2019.
  73. The Universal Traveler: A Soft-Systems Guide to Creativity, Problem-Solving, and the Process of Reaching Goals, Don Koberg and Jim Bagnall; Kaufmann, Revised edition, 1974.
  74. The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability–Designing for Abundance, William McDonough, Michael Braungart, North Point Press, a Division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2013.
  75. The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again, Robert D. Putnam  (Author), Shaylyn Romney Garrett, Simon & Schuster, 2020.
  76. The Urban General Plan, T.J. Kent, Jr., Chandler Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1964.
  77. The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design, John Punter, UBC Press, 2003.
  78. The Wealth of Cities, Revitalizing the Centers of American Life, John O. Norquist, Perseus Publishing, 1998.
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