Resources

Books (Non-Fiction)

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran (Summary)
Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities, by Andre Perry (Summary)
London: Aspects of Change, by Ruth Glass (Summary)
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Summary)

Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America, by Douglas Flamming (Summary)
Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles, by Clora Bryant, Buddy Collette, William Green, Steve Isoardi, Marl Young (Summary)
The Changs next door to the Diazes, by Wendy Cheng (Summary)
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis (Summary)
City of Segregation: One Hundred Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles, by Andrea Gibbons (Summary)
The Compton Cowboys: A New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland, by Walter Thompson-Hernandez (Summary)
LAtitudes: An Angeleno’s Atlas, Edited by Patricia Wakida; Foreword by Luis Alfaro; Introduction by Glen Creason (Summary)
A People’s Guide to Los Angeles by Laura Pulido, Laura R. Barraclough, Wendy Cheng (Summary)
Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past, by William Deverell (Summary)

Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz (Summary)
The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago by Daniel Kay Hertz (Summary)
Crabgrass Frontier – The Suburbanization of the United States, by Kenneth T. Jackson (Summary)
“The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America” by Richard Rothstein (Summary)
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life, by Tom Lewis (Summary)
Women, Race, and Class, by Angela Davis (Summary)

The 30 Minute City: Designing for Access, David M. Levinson (Summary)
Cities for People, by Jan Gehl (Summary)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs (Summary)
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change, by Ashley Dawson (Summary)
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design, by Charles Montgomery (Summary)
Of Streets and Squares: Which Public Spaces Do People Want to Be in and Why?, by Maddalena Iovene, Nicholas Smith, and Chanuki Illushka Seresinhe (Full Text)
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do about It, by Richard Florida (Summary)
Scenario Planning for Cities and Regions: Managing and Envisioning Uncertain Futures, by Robert Godspeed (Summary)
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity, by Charles Marohn (Summary)
Suburban Nation, by Andres Duany (Summary)
Triumph of the City, by Edward Glaser (Summary)
The Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time, by Jeff Speck (Summary)

Are Prisons Obsolete?, by Angela Davis (Summary)
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965, by Kelly Lytle Hernandez (Summary)
The End of Policing, by Alex Vitale (Summary)
Policing the Open Road, by Sarah Seo (Summary)

Better Busses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit, by Steven Higashide (Summary)
Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance, by Adonia E. Lugo (Summary)
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning, by Melody L. Hoffmann (Summary)
High Cost of Free Parking, by Donald Shoup (Summary)
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives, by Jarrett Walker (Summary)
Streetfight: Handbook for the Urban Revolution, by Janette Sadik-Khan (Summary)
Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the automobile age, by Paul Mees (Summary)