The Student Planning Association recommends the following reading / listening / watching list:
Books:
1. Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (SPA-selected beach read)
2. Evicted by Matthew Desmond. Another (SPA)
3. Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg (SPA)
4. Capital City by Samuel Stein (Dr. Dawkins)
5. The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein (Dr. Dawkins)
6. Making our Neighborhoods, Making Our Selves by George Galster (Dr. Dawkins)
7. The One-Way Street of Integration by Ed Goetz (Dr. Dawkins)
8. Lonely City by Olivia Laing (2nd Year MCP Student)
9. When Strangers Meet by Kio Stark (2nd Year MCP Student)
10. Traffic: Why we drive the way we do by Tom Vanderbilt (2nd Year MCP Student)
11. Wanderlust, A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit (2nd Year MCP Student)
12. Urban Forests by Jill Jonnes (2nd Year MCP Student)
13. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (2nd Year MCP Student)
14. Walkable City Rules by Jeff Speck (2nd Year MCP Student)
15. The Municipalists by Seth Fried (2nd Year MCP Student)
16. Inequality in Transport by David Banister (Dr. Iseki)
17. Three Revolutions: Steering Automated, Shared, and Electric Vehicles to a Better Future by Daniel
Sperling (Dr. Iseki)
18. Taking the High Road: A Metropolitan Agenda for Transportation Reform by Brookings Institution
(Dr. Iseki)
19. Parking and the City by Donald Shoup, ed. (Dr. Iseki)
20. Classic Readings in Urban Planning by Jay M. Stein, ed. (Dr. Iseki)
21. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and
Happier by Edward Glaeser (Dr. Iseki)
22. You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization by Elliott Sclar (Dr. Iseki)
23. The Just City by Susan S. Fainstein (Dr. Iseki)
Podcasts:
1. 99% Invisible (SPA)
2. The Weeds (2nd Year MCP Student)
3. The War On Cars (2nd Year MCP Student)
4. StrongTowns (2nd Year MCP Student)
5. Rail-Volution (SPA)
6. Invisible City (2nd Year MCP Student)
7. Technopolis (MCP Student)
8. Nice Try! (SPA)
Episode: “Levittown/Concord Park: Utopia in Our Backyard”
Films/Shows:
1. Charm City (SPA)
2. Southwest Remembered, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpJ35Lw0D5w (SPA)
About Urban Renewal in Southwest, D.C.
3. ‘Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown’ (SPA)
Episode: “Lower East Side”
Episode: “Detroit”
Episode: “Houston”
Blogs:
1. StrongTowns
2. Greater Greater Washington
3. City Lab
4. City Observatory: http://cityobservatory.org/
5. Streetsblog
6. A Guide for the Idealist https://www.planning.org/idealistblog/
"Planning Theory: What Is It Good For?" https://www.planning.org/blog/blogpost/9138589/
“... theory should be an aid to practice, rather than practice being seen as a degradation of
theory. Rather than providing reassurance, theory can make us more self-reliant as we face
complex questions.”