Howard, E. 1902. Garden Cities of Tomorrow. London: Farber and Farber. A classic in city planning that sparked the new town movement. Many of the features of modern suburbs feature designs of Howard and his chief architect, Raymond Unwin. Unfortunately, they do not usually include the total community design envisioned by these pioneers.

Huth, M. J. 1970. The Urban Habitat: Past, Present and Future. Chicago: Nelson-Hall. A review of the urbanization phenomenon from antiquity to present, urban planning in Europe and America, and a formula for a more humane urban America.

Jacobs, Jane. 1961. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage Books. A highly influential and well-written book about urban development.

Kropotkin, P. 1913. Fields, Factories and Workshops or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brainwork with Manual Work. Rev. ed. London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. First published in Boston, 1899. Sociological and economic intelligence of the first order founded on Kropotkin's specialized competence as a geographer and his passion as a communist anarchist. Especially emphasizes planning for undeveloped areas.

Kunstler, J. H. 1993. The Geography of Nowhere. New York: Simon & Schuster. A scathing indictment of modern suburbs.

Le Corbusier. 1924. Urbanisme. Paris: Translated by The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning (New York: Dover Press, 1930). Suggestions for a mechanical metropolis with widely spaced skyscrapers and multiple-decked traffic ways. One of the most influential books of its generation.

McHarg, I. 1969. Design with Nature. Philadelphia: Natural History Press. A classic of landscape architecture that pioneered a holistic approach and consideration of natural features in urban design.

Mumford, Lewis. 1961. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformation, and Its Prospects. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. A comprehensive, classic review of city planning through history.

Park, R. 1952. Human Communities: The City and Human Ecology. Glenco: Free Press. The origin of the idea of human ecology.

Ralston, Jeannie. 1993. "Among the Ruins of Matamoros," Audubon 95(6):86-95. A gripping view of the colonias and maquilladoras of the Texas/Mexico border.

Register, R. 1992. Ecocity Berkeley. Berkeley, CA: Urban Ecology Institute. Suggestions on building healthy and humane cities.

Tolstoy, L. N. 1881. What Then Shall We Do? An account of the census of 1880 and of conditions in Moscow during the age of industrialism. One of the seminal books in social philosophy.

Wachs, M., and M. Crawford, eds. 1990. The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment, and Daily Urban Life. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. An interdisciplinary perspective on urban development and change detailing the impact of the automobile on the form and functioning of the city.