>>1079333Portion of an email I got from my urban planning program.
A note from from the MURP faculty
We often get the question, "What should I read to get ready for graduate school?" Urban planning is a diverse field, so no two planning faculty will give you the same answer for that question. That said, here is a list of the 10 books that focus on urban planning that you can read to help get you started in the fall. Most if not all of these books should be available at a public library. We promise, no tests on these, but check them out if you are interested and have the time.
Campanella, Thomas J. 2012. The Concrete Dragon: China’s Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press.
Desmond, Matthew. 2016. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Crown.
Hall, Peter. 2001. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Hirt, Sonja. 2014. Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Jacobs, Jane. 1961. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Random House.
Kahn, Matthew E. 2006. Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
Lynch, Kevin. 1960. The Image of the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Mumford, Lewis. 1961. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
Sandercock, Leonie. 2003. Cosmopolis II: Mongrel Cities in the 21st Century. New York: Continuum.
Thomas, June Manning. 1997. Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
