Key Planning Books Flashcards
Famous photos shifted public opinion on NYC poverty and resulted in housing reforms.
How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis (1890)
Written by founder of “Garden City” movement.
Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform
Ebenezer Howard (1898)
First non-college textbook (adopted for 8th graders) on city planning.
Wacker’s Manual of the Plan of Chicago
Walter Moody (1912)
First major textbook on planning.
Carrying Out the City Plan
Flavel Shurtleff (1914)
Book focused on regional planning. Written by the “father of reigonal planning”
Cities in Evolution
Patrick Geddes (1915)
Connected planning to engineering.
Planning of the Modern City
Nelson Lewis (1916)
First book in the Green Book series produced by the International CIty/County Management Association.
Local Planning Admnistration
Ladislas Segoe (1941)
Common textbook on land use planning.
Urban Land Use Planning
F. Stuart Chapin (1957)
This book defines basic concepts within the city - like edges and nodes.
Image of the City
Kevin Lynch (1960)
This book provides a critical look at planners and planning with focus on mistakes of highway construction and urban renewal.
Eyes on the Street.
Death and life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs (1961)
This book focuses on the negative effects of pesticides on the environment. DDT specifically.
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson (1962)
The Urban General Plan
TJ Kent (1964)
Seminal book on historic preservation
With Heritage So Rich
Alfred Reins (1966)
This book focuses on conservation design using an overlay technique that was later the basis of GIS.
Design with Nature
Ian McHarg (1969)
This book promotes the use of environmental psychology and sociology in Urban Design
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
William Whyte (1980)
