Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch… I share a very interesting list of the most influential texts on urban design, found in this good article by Hooman Foroughmand Araabi. The list has bee compiled from readings of more than thirty universities in the U.S., U.K. and Australia.
| The Image of the City | Lynch, Kevin | 1960 |
| The Death and Life of Great American Cities | Jane Jacobs | 1961 |
| Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design | Carmona, M, Heath T, Oc T & Tiesdell S | 2003 |
| Townscape | Cullen, G | 1961 |
| The Architecture of the City | Rossi, Aldo | 1966 |
| Responsive Environments : A Manual for Designers | Bentley I. and others | 1985 |
| City Planning According to Artistic Principles | Sitte, Camillo | 1889 |
| Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space | Jan Gehl | 1971 |
| Urban Design Compendium 1 | Llewellyn Davies | 2000 |
| Collage City | Rowe, C and Koetter, F | 1978 |
| A New Theory of Urban Design | Alexander, C | 1987 |
| Urban Space | Krier, R (trans. C. Czehowski and G Black) | 1979 |
| The Urban Design Reader | Larice, Michael, and Elizabeth Macdonald | 2007 |
| A Pattern Language | Alexander, Christopher | 1977 |
| Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form | Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown | 1977 |
| The City Assembled | Kostof, Spiro | 1999 |
| Designing Cities: Critical Readings in Urban Design | Cuthbert, A (ed) | 2003 |
| Urban Design Reader | Carmona, M, & Tiesdell S (ed) | 2007 |
| Town Planning in Practice | Unwin, Raymond | 1909 |
| The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces | Whyte, W H | 1980 |
| The City of Tomorrow and its Planning | Le Corbusier | 1924 |
| Making People-Friendly Towns: Improving the Public Environment ins and Cities | Tibbalds, Francis | 1992 |
| Cities for People | Gehl, J. | 2010 |
| Garden Cities of To-Morrow | Howard, Ebenezer | 1902 |
| Design of Urban Space | Madanipour, A | 1996 |
| Finding Lost Space – Theories of Urban Design | Trancik, R. | 1986 |
| A Theory of Good City Form | Lynch, Kevin | 1981 |
| Urban Design Guidance – Urban Design Frameworks, Development Briefs and Master Plans | Cowan. R | 2002 |
| Urban Design: Methods and Techniques | Moughtin, J.C, Rafael Cuesta, Christine Sarris, Paola Signoretta | 2003 |
| Urban Design – Street and Square | Moughtin, C. et al | 2003 |
| The City Shaped | Spiro Kostof | 1993 |
In our section about books we have reviewed some of these authors and texts on urban design.e
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