Best Books on Livable Communities
200. 
The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America
by:
Scott Cowen
3.33 avg rating — 114 ratings 200. 
Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons
by:
David Bollier
4.16 avg rating — 210 ratings 203. 
Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era
by:
Thad Williamson
3.58 avg rating — 19 ratings 203. 
Hives in the City: Keeping Honey Bees Alive in an Urban World
by:
Alison Gillespie
4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings 205. 
The Community Planning Handbook: How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World
by:
Nick Wates
4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings 205. 
On the High Line: Exploring America's Most Original Urban Park
by:
Annik LaFarge
4.01 avg rating — 74 ratings 207. 
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The Community Building Companion : 50 Ways to Make Connections and Create Change in Your Own Backyard
by:
Lisa Frankfort
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings 
211. 
Growing Local Value: How to Build Business Partnerships That Strengthen Your Community
by:
Laury Hammel
3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings 211. 
Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local from 35 Urban Farmers
by:
Lori Eanes
3.90 avg rating — 62 ratings 213. 
Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise
by:
Prabhjot Singh
3.68 avg rating — 41 ratings 214. 
America's Neighborhood Bats: Understanding and Learning to Live in Harmony with Them
by:
Merlin D. Tuttle
4.13 avg rating — 141 ratings 215. 
The Moral Commonwealth: Social Theory and the Promise of Community
by:
Philip Selznick
3.75 avg rating — 20 ratings 215. 
On The Grid:A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work
by:
Scott Huler
3.76 avg rating — 326 ratings 217. 
The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream
by:
Peter Calthorpe
4.03 avg rating — 109 ratings 
219. 
Ecosystem Management: Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation
by:
Gary K. Meffe
4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings 219. 
Sustainability through Soccer: An Unexpected Approach to Saving Our World
by:
Leidy Klotz
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings 221. 
Community Building: What Makes It Work: A Review of Factors Influencing Successful Community Building 3.40 avg rating — 20 ratings
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223. 
Everyone Leads: Building Leadership from the Community Up
by:
Paul Schmitz
3.72 avg rating — 108 ratings 223. 
The Heart of Sustainability: Restoring Ecological Balance from the Inside Out 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
225. 
The Community Leadership Handbook: Framing Ideas, Building Relationships, and Mobilizing Resources
by:
James F. Krile
3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings 225. 
The Burning Answer: The Solar Revolution: A Quest for Sustainable Power
by:
Keith Barnham
3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings 227. 
Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighborhood into a Community
by:
Heather Flores
3.83 avg rating — 1,072 ratings 227. 
Pig Tales: An Omnivore's Quest for Sustainable Meat
by:
Barry Estabrook
4.14 avg rating — 519 ratings 229. 
Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-Scale Community in a Large-Scale World
by:
Ross Chapin
4.09 avg rating — 220 ratings 229. 
No Solid Ground: Renewable Contentment and Sustainable Happiness in an Age of Uncertainty 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
231. 
Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation
by:
Adam Brock
4.33 avg rating — 46 ratings 231. 
Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World
by:
Aron Cramer
3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings 233. 
The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
233. 
Growing a Better America: Smart, Strong and Sustainable
by:
Chuck Leavell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 235. 
Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities
by:
Carlo Petrini
3.53 avg rating — 90 ratings 236. 
The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability
by:
Paul Hawken
4.12 avg rating — 2,350 ratings 
237. 
The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change 4.09 avg rating — 196 ratings
239. 
Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability 3.94 avg rating — 34 ratings
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245. 
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change
by:
Mike Lydon
3.99 avg rating — 305 ratings 245. 
Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child
by:
Robert B. Brooks
3.98 avg rating — 457 ratings 247. 
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
by:
Peter Moskowitz
4.09 avg rating — 3,603 ratings 247. 
Micro-Resilience: Minor Shifts for Major Boosts in Focus, Drive, and Energy
by:
Bonnie St. John
3.65 avg rating — 409 ratings 249. 
Comeback Cities: A Blueprint For Urban Neighborhood Revival
by:
Paul Grogan
2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 249. 
Supernormal: The Untold Story of Adversity and Resilience
by:
Meg Jay
4.30 avg rating — 1,279 ratings 251. 
House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods 3.32 avg rating — 34 ratings
251. 
Burning Cool: Why Doing, Creating and Participating is the New Cool
by:
Elaine Joli
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 
255. 
Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision
by:
Kirkpatrick Sale
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 71 ratings 256. 
Creating Sustainable Societies: The Rebirth of Democracy and Local Economies
by:
John Boik
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 257. 
Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living
by:
Rachel Kaplan
3.80 avg rating — 643 ratings 258. 
Rebuilding the Foodshed: How to Create Local, Sustainable, and Secure Food Systems 4.21 avg rating — 150 ratings
259. 
Place, Ecology and the Sacred: The Moral Geography of Sustainable Communities 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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261. 
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
by:
Seth Holmes
4.28 avg rating — 2,333 ratings 
263. 
Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity 3.86 avg rating — 154 ratings
264. 
The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
by:
Lucy R. Lippard
4.18 avg rating — 267 ratings 265. 
The Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency to Local Resilience
by:
Rob Hopkins
4.01 avg rating — 967 ratings 266. 
Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local (Perspectives on Economic Change)
by:
Kevin R. Cox
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 267. 
A Convergent Model of Renewal: Remixing the Quaker Tradition in a Participatory Culture
by:
C. Wess Daniels
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 
270. 
The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes
by:
John F. Forester
3.63 avg rating — 27 ratings 
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People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities
by:
F. Kaid Benfield
3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings 274. 
Playborhood: Turn Your Neighborhood Into a Place for Play
by:
Mike Lanza
3.93 avg rating — 150 ratings 275. 
The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking
by:
Jay Walljasper
3.86 avg rating — 118 ratings 
277. 
Love at the Pub: An Insider's Guide to Craftsmanship, Conversation, and Community at the Brick Store Pub
by:
Mary Jane Mahan
2.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 278. 
Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government
by:
Evan McKenzie
3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings 