Urbanists are a strange bunch. While most people show up at the beach with a romance novel or the latest murder mystery, we think Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and Rem Koolhaas’s Delirious New York mix just fine with sun and surf. In the spirit of embracing our peculiarity (don’t fight it, there’s no point), here are some reading lists to help you through the last long days of summer.
- The Nature of Cities: 90 Must-Reads From Every Continent
- Planetizen: 100 “Best” Books on City-Making Ever Written
- Planetizen’s Top Ten Books of 2017
- How We Get To Next: Metropolis Reading List
- The Urbanist: Reading the City
- Verso: Reimagining Architecture & Cities
- Citizen Lab: The City of Tomorrow
- Place Makers: Recommended Reading
- Travel + Leisure: The Best Books to Read in 12 Cities Around the World
