Brent Toderian es un destacado urbanista canadiense, que ha asesorado a ciudades de todo el mundo entre las que están Auckland, Buenos Aires, Copenhague, Groningen, Helsinki, Medellín, Nueva York, Oslo, Perth, Rotterdam y Sydney. Además de ser el encargado de los planes de diseño urbano de varias ciudades canadienses.
Consultado por el sitio Planetizen, Toderian seleccionó, entre los libros de su extensa biblioteca sobre urbanismo, los que para él son los 100 mejores libros sobre ciudad o más bien sus favoritos, porque reconoce que el termino “mejor”es bastante subjetivo.
También aclara que el número en que está puesto cada libro en el ranking, no hay que tomárselo muy enserio, pero que sin embargo se acerca al orden que él cree debería tener.
100. Sustainable Communities
Sim Van der Ryn and Peter Calthorpe
99. Design with Nature
Ian McHarg
98. Ecocities
Richard Register
97. Highline: the Inside Story of New York City’s Park In The Sky
David and Hammond
96. The Geography of Nowhere
James Howard Kunstler
95. Dream City: Vancouver and the Global Imagination
Lance Berelowitz
94. Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Matt Hern
93. Building Barcelona
Peter Rowe
92. Cities Back from the Edge: New Life For Downtown
Roberta Brandes Gratz and Norman Mintz
91. Urban Design and the Bottom Line: Optimizing the Return on Perception
Dennis Jerke, Douglas Porter, Terry Lassar
90. Delirious New York
Rem Koolhaas
89. The Shape of the City: Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
John Sewell
88. Sprawl Repair Manual
Galina Tachieva
87. Public Sydney: Drawing the City
Thalis and Cantrill
86. Agricultural Urbanism
Janine de la Salle and Mark Holland
85. Learning from Las Vegas
Robert Venturi et al
84. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities
Southworth and Ben-Joseph
83. Cities and Natural Process
Michael Hough
82. Looking Around: A Journey Through Architecture
Witold Rybczynski
81. The Principles of Green Urbanism: Transforming the City for Sustainability
Steffen Lehmann
80. Smart Cities
Anthony Townsend (it’s this high because I haven’t finished reading it!)
79. Civilizing American Cities
Frederick Law Olmsted
78. City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age
P.D. Smith
77. The New City
John Lorinc
76. Designing Community: Charrettes,Master Plans and Form-Based Codes
David Walters
75. The Option of Urbanism
Christopher Leinberger
74. City Making in Paradise: Nine Decisions that Saved Vancouver
Mike Harcourt and Ken Cameron
73. The Wealth of Cities
John Norquist
72. The Geography of Hope
Chris Turner
71. The Great Good Place
Ray Oldenburg
70. Urban Code: 100 Lessons for Understanding the City
Mikoleit & Purckhauer
69. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
Don Mitchell
68. The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development
Hank Dittmar and Gloria Ohland
67. The Fractured Metropolis
Jonathan Barnett
66. Walking Home: the Life and Lessons of a City Builder
Ken Greenberg
65. Wrestling with Moses
Anthony Flint
64. E-Topia: “Urban Life, Jim – But Not As We Know It”
William Mitchell (& City of Bits)
63. The Next American Metropolis
Peter Calthorpe
62. Grand Urban Rules
Alex Lehnerer
61. The Language of Towns and Cities: A Visual Dictionary
Dhiru Thadani
60. Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design
Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Taner Oc, Steve Tiesdell
59. Cities are Good for You: the Genius of the Metropolis
Leo Hollis
58. Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
Peter Calthorpe
57. A Country of Cities: a Manifesto for an Urban America
Vishaan Chakrabarti
56. Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form
Loukaitou-Sideris & Banerjee
55. The Pedestrian Pocketbook: a New Suburban Design Strategy
Doug Kelbaugh
54. The Old Way of Seeing
Jonathan Hale
53. Green Metropolis
David Owen
52. City Comforts: How to Build and Urban Village
David Sucher
51. Global City Blues
Daniel Solomon
50. People Places: Design Guidelines for Urban Open Space
Cooper Marcus & Francis
49. Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
Dunham-Jones and Williamson
48. Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities
Patrick Condon
47. The New Civic Art
Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Alminana
46. Sustainable Transportation Planning
Jeffrey Tumlin
45. Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser
44. Who’s Your City
Richard Florida
43. Perverse Cities
Pamela Blais
42. The Public Face of Architecture: Civic Culture and Public Spaces
Nathan Glazer and Mark Lilla
41. Cities of Tomorrow
Peter Hall
40. Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature
Douglas Farr
39. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
McDonough and Braungart
38. Visualizing Density
Julie Campoli and Alex MacLean
37. Suburban Nation
Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck
36. Eco-Urbanity: Towards Well Mannered Built Environments
Darko Radovic
35. Le Pieton Dans la Ville/Walking in the City: Sharing Public Space
Jean-Jacques Terrin
34. Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being and Sustainability
Dannenberg et al
33. Good City Form
Kevin Lynch
32. The Vancouver Achievement
John Punter
31. Livable Streets
Donald Appleyard
30. The City in History
Lewis Mumford (and The Culture of Cities, The Highway and the City, The Urban Prospect, etc)
29. Town Spaces
Rob Krier
(or Urban Space por Rob Krier, no pude decidir cual me gustaba más)
28. New Design Cities
Commerce Design Montreal
27. Design for Ecological Democracy
Randolph Hester
26. The American Vitruvius: An Architects Handbook of Civic Art
Hegemann and Peets
25. Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change
Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters, and Don Chen
24. The Great Reset
Richard Florida
23. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Charles Montgomery
22. The Power Broker – Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
21. The High Cost of Free Parking
Donald Shoup
20. Straphanger: Saving our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
Taras Grescoe
19. Human Transit
Jarrett Walker
18. City Cycling
Pucher & Buehler
17. Walkable City
Jeff Speck
16. Cerdà and the Barcelona of the Future: Reality versus Project
Ajuntament de Barcelona
15. Modern Civic Art, or The City Made Beautiful
Charles Mulford Robinson
14. Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Jane Jacobs
13. The City Shaped (& su compañero, The City Assembled)
Spiro Kostof
12. The Creative City
Charles Landry
11. Town Planning in Practice
Raymond Unwin
10. Life Between Buildings
Jan Gehl
9. The Image of the City
Kevin Lynch
8. Townscape
Gordon Cullen
7. The Art of Building Cities
Camillo Sitte
6. A Pattern Language
Christopher Alexander et al (& su serie completa, incluyendo A New Theory of Urban Design; The Timeless Way of Building, etc.)
5. City: Rediscovering The Center
William H. Whyte
4. Great Streets
Allan Jacobs
3. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
2. The Art of City Making
Charles Landry
1. Cities for People
Jan Gehl
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