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Urban and Regional Planning

• Hart, Julian. Sustainable City Framework, Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme, UN-Habitat. Peruse.
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First Principles, Raise the Hammer (Hamilton, Ontario)

• Urban planning, Wikipedia
• Katz, Bruce. Reviving Cities: Think Metropolitan, Policy Brief #33, Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution
• Hill, Edward W. and Jeremy Nowak. Nothing Left to Lose: Only Radical Strategies Can Help America's Most Distressed Cities, The Brookings Review, Summer 2000, Vol.18 No.3, pp. 22-26. Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution

Extra Reading

• Foster-Bey, John and Robert I. Lerman. The Evolution of the American City. The Urban Institute, June 26, 2000
• Corbett, John. Grady Clay: The Reading of the American City, 1973. Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science.
• Bohl, Charles C. Controversy: To What Extent and in What Ways Should Governmental Bodies Regulate Urban Planning? Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2003
• Glaese, Edward L. Demand for Density? The Functions of the City in the 21st Century, The Brookings Review, Summer 2000, Vol.18 No.3, pp.10-13. Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution
• Rebecca R. Sohmer and Robert E. Lang. Downtown Rebound. Fannie Mae Foundation and Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy Census Note, May 2001 [Download PDF file.]
• Best Practices and Local Leadership Programme (BLP), UN Habitat
• National League of Cities
  • Forms of municipal government
  • The four historic forms of city government
  • City Knowledge Network: Examples of Programs for Cities (searchable database)
  • Advisory Council Trends and Changes Topics
  • Major Factors Affecting America's Cities [Download as PDF file.]
  • The State of America's Cities 2005: The Annual Opinion Survey of Municipal Elected Officials [Download as PDF file.]
  • Local Budget and Tax Policy in the U.S.: Perceptions of City Officials [Download as PDF file.]
  • Toward a System of Public Finance for the 21st Century [Download as PDF file.]
• HUD
  • Cities/Communities
    • Urban Affairs and Planning
    • Urban Policy Briefs
• Wong, Carlin. Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay: The Social Disorganization Theory. Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science.
• Corbett, John and Stacy Rebich. Richard Meier: Communications Theory of Urban Growth, 1961. Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science.
• Chapin, F. Stuart, Human activity patterns in the city: things people do in time and in space. New York: Wiley, 1974.

Books

• Calthorpe, Peter and William Fulton. The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl. Island Press, 2001. View on Amazon.
• Cohen, Nahoum. Urban Planning Conservation and Preservation. McGraw-Hill Professional, 2001. View on Amazon.
• Garreau, Joel. Edge City : Life on the New Frontier. Anchor, 1992. View on Amazon.
• Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage, 1994 View on Amazon.
• Marshall, Alex. How Cities Work : Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken. University of Texas Press, 2001. View on Amazon.
• Register, Richard. Ecocities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature. New Society Publishers;, 2006. View on Amazon.
• Tung, Anthony. Preserving the World's Great Cities : The Destruction and Renewal of the Historic Metropolis. Three Rivers Press. 2002[View on Amazon.

Resources

• Cyburbia
• The Garreau Group ("Edge City" issues, also addressed in Katz, Bruce. Reviving Cities: Think Metropolitan in reading, above)
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
• National League of Cities
• Planinetizen
• Project for Public Spaces
• Raise the Hammer
• Record Place
• The Urban Institute
• Urban Land Instute

Others...

• Childe, V. Gordon, "The Urban Revolution," Town Planning Review, 21 (April 1950), p. 1-17.
• Lopez, Robert S., "The Crossroads within the Wall," in: Oscar Handlin and John Burchard eds. The Historian and the City. MIT 1963, p. 27-43.
• King, Anthony, "Exporting planning: the colonial and neo-colonial experience," in: Cherry, Gordon E. ed., Shaping an Urban World: Planning in the Twentieth Century, London, 1980, p. 203-226.