Books like Before Central Park

#1

Transforming the Irvine Ranch Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and the Big Plan

C. Michael Stockstill

Themes: Urban & Land Use Planning • City Planning & Urban Development • Architecture

#2

Buffalo at the Crossroads The Past, Present, and Future of American Urbanism

Peter H. Christensen

Themes: Urban & Land Use Planning • City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

#3

Baltimore Revisited Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City

P. Nicole King

Themes: Urban & Land Use Planning • City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)

#4

The Most Segregated City in America City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980

Charles E. Connerly

Themes: Urban & Land Use Planning • City Planning & Urban Development • Architecture

#5

Historic Architecture in West Philadelphia, 1789-1930s

Joseph Minardi

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Architecture

#6

Twin Towers The Life of New York City’s World Trade Center

Angus K. Gillespie

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Architecture

#7

The Birth of City Planning in the United States, 1840–1917

Jon A. Peterson

Themes: Urban & Land Use Planning • City Planning & Urban Development • Architecture

#8

Root Shock How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It

Mindy Thompson Fullilove

Themes: Urban & Land Use Planning • City Planning & Urban Development • Architecture

#9

Lakefront Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago

Joseph D. Kearney

Themes: Urban & Land Use Planning • City Planning & Urban Development • Architecture

#10

Detroit City Is the Place to Be The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

Mark Binelli

Themes: Urban & Land Use Planning • City Planning & Urban Development • Architecture

#11

The Black Butterfly The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America

Lawrence T. Brown

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#12

George Washington’s Washington Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic

Adam Costanzo

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#13

Black Citymakers How the Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

Marcus Anthony Hunter

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#14

Chicago Then & Now

Elizabeth McNulty

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Architecture • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

#15

The New Urban Crisis How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

Richard Florida

Themes: Urban & Land Use Planning • City Planning & Urban Development • Architecture

#16

Freedomland Co-op City and the Story of New York

Annemarie Sammartino

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Public Policy

#17

We the Poisoned Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Cover-Up and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans

Jordan Chariton

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Public Policy

#18

Show Me A Hero

Lisa Belkin

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Public Policy

#19

Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee

Courtney Elizabeth Knapp

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Public Policy

#20

A New Working Class The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement

Jane Berger

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Public Policy

#21

The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 12 A Monograph of the Sub-Class Cirripedia, Volume II: The Balanidae (Part One)

Charles Darwin

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Public Policy

#22

Sixty Miles Upriver Gentrification and Race in a Small American City

Richard E. Ocejo

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Public Policy

#23

Schenectady’s General Electric Realty Plot

Chris Leonard

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Public Policy

#24

The Race Underground Boston, New York, and the Incredible Rivalry That Built America’s First Subway

Doug Most

Themes: City Planning & Urban Development • Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) • Public Policy