Books for Urban Design Courses

Eco-Urbanity

Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments

Edited by Darko Radovic

There is need for change in our currently unsustainable cities. Carefully outlining paths towards better, sustainable ways of urban living, this book proposes a radical change in the ways we conceive and live our urban environments. Bringing together diverse cultural and disciplinary views on urban...

Published March 30th 2009 by Routledge

Sustainable Urban Design

An Environmental Approach, 2nd Edition

Edited by Adam Ritchie, Randall Thomas

By the end of the twenty-first century it is thought that three-quarters of the world’s population will be urban; our future is in cities. Making these cities healthy, vibrant and sustainable is an exceptional challenge which this book addresses. It sets out some of the basic principles of the...

Published December 15th 2008 by Taylor & Francis

Writing Urbanism

A Design Reader

Edited by Douglas Kelbaugh, Kit McCullough

Series: The ACSA Architectural Education Series

Urban design continues to grow as an increasingly important and expanding field of study, research and professional endeavour. Distinguished by its broad scope and comprehensiveness on the subject of urban design, this new collection combines selected essays from both practitioners and academia.&...

Published June 17th 2008 by Routledge