📚 Urban Policy

Cities run on decisions: zoning, transit and housing, and the school of thought that studies which ones worked.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject urban policy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Death and Life of Great American Cities	Jane Jacobs	1961	47
	Contemporary urban planning	John M. Levy	2008	21
	Planning in the USA	Barry Cullingworth	1997	18
	The culture of cities	Lewis Mumford	1938	16
	The city reader	Richard T. LeGates	2003	15
	City Politics	Dennis R. Judd	2011	15
	Post-War Economic Policy and Planning	United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Post-war Economic Policy and Planning. Subcommittee on Housing and	1973	10
	Market economy and urban change	Roger Zetter	2004	9
	Reviving America's Forgotten Neighborhoods	Elise M. Bright	2000	7
	Cities, Nationalism and Democratization	Scott A. Bollens	2007	7
	Intercultural City	Charles Landry	2012	7
	China Constructing Capitalism	Michael Keith	2013	7
	Ohio's urban policy	James Guthrie Coke	1980	6
	Chandigarh	Ravi Kalia	1987	6
	Management of Regeneration	John Diamond	2005	6
	Urban and Regional Policies for Metropolitan Livability	David K. Hamilton	2008	6
	Metropolitan Problems	S. Miles	2013	6
	People and Politics in Urban America, Second Edition	Robert W. Kweit	2013	6
	Land Law and Urban Policy in Context	Thanos Zartaloudis	2016	6
	Housing in Post-Growth Society	Yosuke Hirayama	2018	6
	Smart Transitions in City Regionalism	Tassilo Herrschel	2018	6
	The politics of American cities	Dennis R. Judd	1979	5
	Index to Current Urban Documents (Index to Current Urban Documents (Cumulative Volume Only))	Mary Kalb	1982	5
	Cities of the world	Stanley D. Brunn	1993	5
	Explorations in Planning Theory	Seymour J. Mandelbaum	1996	5
	Suburban Nation	Andres Duany	2001	5
	Small Cities	David Bell	2006	5
	American urban politics in a global age	Paul Kantor	2007	5
	Theories of urban politics	Jonathan S. Davies	2008	5
	Culture-Led Urban Regeneration	Ronan Paddison	2009	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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