URBAN DESIGN REFERENCE BOOKS LIST

1. Concepts of Urban design - David Gosling

2. City shaped - Spiro Kostof
3. Architecture of town and cities - Paul D. Speriregon
4. An introduction to Urban design - Johnathan Barnet ( His other books like
Urban design as public policy, Redesigning cities)
5. New Theory of Urban Design Christopher Alexander.
6. Urban Spaces John Moris.
7. Image of City -- Kevin Lynch.
8. City Assembled Spiro Kostof
9. Design of Cities Edmund Bacon
10.Design with Nature - Ian McHarg
11.The social logic of space Bill Hillier
12.Cities and Natural Process - Michael Hough
13. Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design - Matthew
Carmona, Tim Heath, Taner Oc, Steve Tiesdell
14.Cities of Tomorrow - Peter Hall
15.Good City Form - Kevin Lynch
16.The City in History, Lewis Mumford (and The Culture of Cities, The Highway
and the City, The Urban Prospect, etc)
17.Town Spaces - Rob Krier
18.Life Between Buildings - Jan Gehl
19.The Image of the City - Kevin Lynch
20.Townscape - Gordon Cullen
21.The Art of Building Cities - Camillo Sitte
22.A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander et al (& his whole series,
including A New Theory of Urban Design; The Timeless Way of Building,
etc.)
23.The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs
24.Cities for People - Jan Gehl
25.The New Landscape Charles Correa
26.Finding lost space Roger Trancik
27.Urban design : A typology of procedures and products Jon Lang
28.The Architecture of The City - Aldo Rossi

29.History of Urban Form - AEJ Morris

30.The Global City Saskia Sassen
31.Public Spaces Public Life Jan Gehl
32.Sustainable Urbanism: Design with Nature Douglas Farr
33.The social life of small urban spaces - William H Whyte
34. The Urban Pattern: City planning and design - Arthur Gallion, Simon Eisner
35.Elements of Urban form George Banz
36.Human Aspects of Urban Form: Towards a Man-Environment Approach to
Urban Form and Design Amos Rappaport
Assignment - 1
a) Urban design Terminology
b) Graphics in Urban design
c) Contributions in Urban design by Christopher Alexander, Kevin Lynch,
Jonathen Barnett, Bill Hillier, Gorden Cullen, Rob Krier
d) New Concepts trending in Urban Design
Assignment 2
Urban design case studies
Suggested websites for reference
www.udg.org
www.rudi.net
www.urbandesign.org
www.urbandesign.org.au
www.futurecities.ethz.ch
www.archdaily.com
www.urbandesigncompendium.co.uk
www.livablestreets.com
www.pps.org
www.thepolisblog.org
globalurbanist.com
www.planetizen.com
www.streetfilms.org