 | Leon Krier: Architecture & Urban Design 1967-1992 by Leon Krier
Buy used from: $1,000.00 The must-have seminal inspiration for New Urbanism.
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 | New Civic Art : Elements of Town Planning by Andres Duany
Buy new: $53.55 / Used from: $48.20 Duany's selection of inspirations from history.
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 | New American Urbanism: Re-forming the Suburban Metropolis (Skira Architecture Library) by John A. Dutton
Buy new: $26.56 / Used from: $18.89 Great project reference.
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 | The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream by Peter Calthorpe
Buy new: $27.30 / Used from: $6.93 Great project reference.
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 | Charter of The New Urbanism by Congress for the New Urbanism
Buy used from: $33.08 The manifesto of the New Urbanists.
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 | The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community by Peter Katz
Buy new: $37.77 / Used from: $13.98 Great project reference.
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 | Towns and Town-Making Principles by Andres Duany
Buy new: $21.90 / Used from: $18.80 Great DPZ project reference.
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 | Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany
Buy used from: $2.19 Duany's goes pop.
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 | Seaside: Making a Town in America by Keller Easterling
Buy used from: $9.29 Great detailed look at the plan and individual homes of Seaside, the first New Urbanist village turned resort.
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 | Modern Cities (The New City) by Urbanism/Journal
Buy used from: $34.56 Inspirations compiled by the University of Miami School of Architecture.
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 | Rob Krier: Architecture and Urban Design (Architectural Monographs No 30) by Rob Krier
Buy used from: $42.00 Leon's brother tries his hand at urban design.
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| The Architecture of the City (Mit Press/Wright-Allen Series in System Dynamics) by Aldo Rossi
Buy used from: $160.00 Rossi tries his hand at urban design.
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 | Aldo Rossi (Obras y Proyectos / Works and Projects) by Gianni Braghieri
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $14.98 Not really urban design, just selected Rossi projects.
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| Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The Creation of an Architectural Masterpiece by Thomas Jefferson
Buy used from: $18.02 An interesting inpiration for today's New Urbanist.
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 | Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings by Frederick Doveton Nichols
Buy new: $12.44 / Used from: $9.00 A slim volume compiling various Jefferson drawings.
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 | The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History by Spiro Kostof
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $14.87 Historical development patterns for urbanists.
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 | A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb by Philip Langdon
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $1.77 |
 | Great Streets by Allan B. Jacobs
Buy new: $27.72 / Used from: $24.99 Inspirations for designing streetscapes people actually enjoy.
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 | Architecture: Choice or Fate by Leon Krier
Buy used from: $13.01 Not as inspiring as the first book on this list, but worth reading anyway.
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 | Atlas of Rare City Maps: Comparative Urban Design, 1830-1842 by Melville C Branch
Buy new: $44.70 / Used from: $24.60 Large format look at historical maps of selected large cities.
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| Urban Space by Rob Krier
Buy used from: $10.74 Another entry from Leon's brother.
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 | Community By Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities by Kenneth Hall
Buy new: $30.61 / Used from: $20.98 Textbook-like format on community design.
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 | The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
Buy new: $10.55 / Used from: $2.47 A Kunstler rant.
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 | Cities without Suburbs (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) by Mr. David Rusk
Buy used from: $20.99 Pages and pages of raw data and figures. Not an enjoyable read, but if you have to deal with county clerks, this might help prepare your for some mundane tedium.
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 | City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village by David Sucher
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $5.37 A pedestrian review of the little things.
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