Best Placemaking Books
1. 
The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking
by:
Jay Walljasper
3.86 avg rating β 118 ratings 2. 
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by:
Jeff Speck
4.32 avg rating β 8,339 ratings 3. 
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) 4.42 avg rating β 5,326 ratings
4. 
Latino Placemaking and Planning: Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization
by:
Jesus J. Lara
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings 5. 
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity 4.27 avg rating β 2,701 ratings
6. 
The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience
by:
Toby Hemenway
4.11 avg rating β 191 ratings 6. 
The Great Good Place: CafΓ©s, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
by:
Ray Oldenburg
3.86 avg rating β 982 ratings 9. 
Planning Urban Places: Self-Organising Places with People in Mind
by:
Mary Ganis
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 10. 
11. 
Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront
by:
Heather Wolf
4.44 avg rating β 39 ratings 11. 
13. 
Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities
by:
Victoria Derr
4.83 avg rating β 6 ratings 14. 
Bridging Cultures: The Guide to Social Innovation in Cosmopolitan Cities
by:
Noha Nasser
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 15. 
Navigating Ethnicity: Segregation, Placemaking, and Difference
by:
David H. Kaplan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 16. 
18. 
The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design 3.68 avg rating β 22 ratings
19. 
Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability 3.94 avg rating β 34 ratings
20. 
Sustainist Design Guide: How Sharing, Localism, Connectedness and Proportionality Are Creating a New Agenda for Social Design
by:
Michael Schwarz
4.12 avg rating β 17 ratings 21. 
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
by:
AndrΓ©s Duany
4.12 avg rating β 2,640 ratings 
23. 
The Creative Community Builder's Handbook: How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture
by:
Tom Borrup
4.17 avg rating β 60 ratings 24. 
Connections: 12 approaches to relationship-based placemaking
by:
Noha Nasser
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 25. 
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
by:
John McKnight
3.83 avg rating β 439 ratings 26. 
Placemaking: A New Materialist Theory of Pedagogy
by:
Tara Page
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating 27. 
Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books xx) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7 ratings
28. 
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival 4.12 avg rating β 681 ratings
31. 
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
by:
Peter Moskowitz
4.09 avg rating β 3,603 ratings 
33. 
Transforming Communities: How People Like You Are Healing Their Neighborhoods
by:
Sandhya Rani Jha
4.39 avg rating β 71 ratings 
35. 
The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
by:
Lucy R. Lippard
4.18 avg rating β 267 ratings 36. 
Repairing the American Metropolis: Common Place Revisited (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 16 ratings
37. 
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect 3.74 avg rating β 294 ratings
38. 
Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
by:
Richard Moe
3.73 avg rating β 30 ratings 
41. 
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
by:
Wade Graham
3.63 avg rating β 626 ratings 
43. 
Spaces for the Sacred: Place, Memory, and Identity
by:
Philip Sheldrake
3.86 avg rating β 36 ratings 44. 
Smart Communities: How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future
by:
Suzanne W. Morse
3.55 avg rating β 44 ratings 45. 
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge
by:
Frank Fischer
4.26 avg rating β 31 ratings 
48. 
The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism
by:
Bruce Katz
3.48 avg rating β 290 ratings 49. 
How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken
by:
Alex Marshall
3.86 avg rating β 166 ratings 
52. 
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
by:
Anthony Flint
3.93 avg rating β 1,003 ratings 53. 
The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream
by:
Peter Calthorpe
4.03 avg rating β 109 ratings 54. 
Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World
by:
Ross Chapin
4.09 avg rating β 220 ratings 
56. 
Global Heartland: Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking
by:
Faranak Miraftab
4.47 avg rating β 32 ratings 57. 
Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems 4.21 avg rating β 150 ratings
59. 
The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
by:
Victor Papanek
4.20 avg rating β 168 ratings 60. 
The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems 3.58 avg rating β 19 ratings
61. 
Place, Race, and Story: Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation
by:
Ned Kaufman
3.88 avg rating β 32 ratings 62. 
64. 
Deconstructing Placemaking: Needs, Opportunities, and Assets
by:
Mahyar Arefi
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 65. 
The Design Companion for Planning and Placemaking
by:
Tfl and Udl
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 66. 
Landscapes of Mobility: Culture, Politics, and Placemaking
by:
Arijit Sen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 67. 
Pop-Up Civics in 21st Century America: Understanding the Political Potential of Placemaking
by:
Ryan Salzman
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 
69. 
Archaeologies of Placemaking: Monuments, Memories and Engagement in Native North America 4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings
70. 
Serene Urbanism: A biophilic theory and practice of sustainable placemaking 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
71. 
Creative Community Building in the Public Right of Way: City Repair's Placemaking Guidebook really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
73. 
Design for Diversity (Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series)
by:
Emily Talen
3.89 avg rating β 9 ratings 74. 
The Case for Everyday Democracy: Turning Community Meetings into Engines for Collaboration it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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78. 
Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities
by:
Pedro Gadanho
3.67 avg rating β 9 ratings 79. 
The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking (Routledge International Handbooks)
by:
Cara Courage
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings