The online world has many free resources to build your background knowledge.
Click on the links to find the pdfs of well-known books in urban planning!
Alexander, Christopher
A Pattern Language
Florida, Richard
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
Gehl, Jan
Life between Buildings
Cities for People
Hall, Peter
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century
Jacobs, Jane
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Lynch, Kevin
Image of the city
Mumford, Lewis
The City in History
The Culture of Cities
Smith, Adam
The Wealth of Nations
Speck, Jeff
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Suburban nation: The Rise of Sprawl and Decline of the American Dream
Whyte, William
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
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