PLANetizen, a Web community run by Los Angeles-based Urban Insight, compiled this list of the top 10 books published in 2003.
- America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake, by Howard Husock (Ivan R. Dee Inc.)
- The Birth of City Planning in the United States: 1840-1917, Jon A. Peterson (The Johns Hopkins University Press)
- Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000, Dolores Hayden (Pantheon)
- City: Urbanism and Its End, Douglas Rae (Yale University Press)
- Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston, Nancy S. Seasholes (MIT Press)
- Global City Blues, Daniel Solomon (Island Press)
- Halfway to Everywhere: A Portrait of America’s First-Tier Suburbs, William Hudnut III (Urban Land Institute)
- House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America’s Urban Neighborhoods, Alexander Von Hoffman (Oxford University Press)
- Mega-Projects: The Changing Politics of Urban Public Investment, Alan A. Altshuler, David E. Luberoff (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy/Brookings Institution)
- Modern Architecture and Other Essays, Vincent Scully, selected by Neil Levine (Princeton University Press)
All 10 can be purchased through www.HousingZone.com/store. PLANetizen editors selected the list based on various criteria, including potential impact on urban planners, developers and designers.
Advertisement
Related Stories
Land Planning
Helena Habitat for Humanity Aims to Build 1,000 Affordable Homes
A new Habitat for Humanity project in Helena, Mont., aims to deliver 1,000 affordable housing units and outdoor community amenities
Government + Policy
How Eminent Domain May Be Used to Respond to Climate Crises
Eminent domain, which grants the government power to take private property for public use, has displaced thousands of Americans for the sake of infrastructure in the past, but it may be used for a better purpose in a global climate crisis
Q+A
Soil Connect Is Moving Dirt and Building Relationships
Cliff Fetner created Soil Connect so builders and developers could more easily move dirt and other aggregates from jobsite to jobsite, but it has expanded to become something much more