RECOMMENDED READINGS
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• URBAN STUDIES
• ACADEMIC CRIMINOLOGY
• CRIME PREVENTION
• PROXEMICS & BUILDING NEIGHBORHOODS
• CULTURAL & SOCIAL STORIES
• STRATEGIES FOR CHANGE AGENTS

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• 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