RECOMMENDED READINGS
- Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) - Jane Jacobs
- The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the life of Italian-Americans (1962) - Herbert J. Gans
- Crestwood Heights: A Study of the Culture of Suburban Life (1967) - J. R. Seeley, R. A. Sim and E. W. Loosely
- A Walden Two Experiment: The First Five Years of Twin Oaks Community (1972) - Kathleen Kindade
- Good City Form (1981) - Kevin Lynch
- CoHousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves (1988) - Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett
- Sustainable Communities: A New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs and Towns (1991) - Sim Van der Ryn and Peter Calthorpe
- Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (2000) - Andres Duany, Elisabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck
- Who’s Your City: How the Creative Economy is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (2009) - Richard Florida
- Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival (2000) - Paul S. Grogan and Tony Proscio
- The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart (2008) - Bill Bishop
- What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs (2010) - Stephen A. Goldsmith and Lynn Elisabeth
- Great American Cities: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (2011) - Robert J. Sampson
- Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (2013) - Charles Montgomery
- Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia (2014) - Anthony M. Townsend
- Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs (2016) - Samuel Zipp and Nathan Storring
- SafeGrowth: Building Neighborhoods of Safety and Livability (2018) - Gregory Saville and SafeGrowth team
- Delinquent Boys: The Culture of the Gang (1955) - Albert K. Cohen
- Delinquency and Opportunity: A Theory of Delinquent Gangs (1960) - Richard A. Cloward and Lloyd E. Ohlin
- Ideology and Crime: A Study of Crime in its Social and Historical Context (1965) - Leon Radzinowicz
- Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (1971) - C. Ray Jeffery
- Crime, A Spatial Perspective (1980) - Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie and Keith D. Harries
- Environmental Criminology (1981) - Paul J. Brantingham and Patricia L. Brantingham
- Human Ecology (1981) - Amos H. Hawley
- The Reasoning Criminal: Rational Choice Perspectives on Offending (1986) - Derek B. Cornish and Ronald V. Clarke
- Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing (1990) - Malcolm K. Sparrow, Mark H. Moore, and David M. Kennedy
- Disorder and Decline: Crime and the Spiral of Decay in American Neighborhoods (1990) - Wesley G. Skogan
- Problem-Oriented Policing (1990) - Herman Goldstein
- The Better Angels of our Nature; Why Violence Has Declined (2011) - Steven Pinker
- Place Matters: Criminology for the 21st Century (2016) - David Weisburd, John E. Eck, and Anthony A. Braga
- Defensible Space: Crime Prevention Through Urban Design (1972) - Oscar Newman
- Community of Interest (1980) - Oscar Newman
- Breaking and Entering: An Ethnographic Analysis of Burglary (1991) - Paul F. Cromwell, James N. Olson and D. Aunn Wester Avary
- Situational Crime Prevention: Successful Case Studies (1992) - Ronald V. Clark
- Preventing Violence (2001) - James Gilligan
- Less Law, More Order: The Truth About Reducing Crime (2008) - Irvin Waller
- Don’t Shoot: One Man, A Street Fellowship, and the End of Violence in Inner-City America (2011) - David M. Kennedy
- The Territorial Imperative (1966) - Robert Ardrey
- Personal Space: The Behavioral Basis of Design (1969) - Robert Sommer
- The Hidden Dimension (1969) - Edward T. Hall
- City: Rediscovering the Center (1988) - William H. Whyte
- The City After the Automobile (1997) - Moshe Safdie with Wendy Kohn
- Neigbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way (2004) - Jim Diers
- Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (2012) - Jeff Speck
- Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered (1974) - E. F. Schumacher
- Oath of Fealty (1981) - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- The Chalice and the Blade (1987) - Riane Eisler
- Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave (1995) - Alvin and Heidi Toffler
- Bowling Alone (2000) - Robert D. Putnam
- Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea (2006) - Mark Kurlansky
- A History of the Future (2008) - Donna Goodman
- Mindfulness (1989) - Ellen J. Langer
- Emotional Intelligence (1995) - Daniel Goleman
- The Golem: What You Should Know about Science - 2nd edition (1998) - Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch
- Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century (1999) - Howard Gardner
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (2000) - Malcolm Gladwell
- Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (2001) - Paul Edman
- Primal Leadership (2002) - Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatwzis, and Anne McKee
- The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: How to Develop and Use the Four Key Emotional Skills of Leadership (2004) - David R. Caruso and Peter Salvoes
- The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of an Audience (2010) - Carmine Gallo
