Books (Non-Fiction)
Economics
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 )
Historical Accounts – Southern California
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 )
Historical Accounts (General US)
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 )
Planning Theory
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 )
Safety/Policing
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 )
Transportation
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 )
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