Book Group Bookshelf
OAPA'S Planners Book Group gathers periodically to discuss books relevant to planners and planning practice. This reading list includes selections from the Group's prior meetings.
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies our Transportation System
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Dream Play Build by James Rojas and John Kamp
Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest edited by Robert T. Boyd
Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation by Danielle Arigoni
Urban Forests by Jill Jonnes
Oregon Plans: The Making of an Unquiet Land-Use Revolution by Sy Adler
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City by M. Nolan Gray
Homelessness is a Housing Problem by Greg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern
Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe by Lynda V. Mapes
Pushed Out: Contested Development and Rural Gentrification in the US West by Ryanne Pilgeram
Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-scale Manufacturing by Ilana Preuss
Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality, by Melissa & Chris Bruntlett
Using Drones in Planning Practice by Ric Stephens, Rob Dannenberg, Wendle Kellington, and Patrick Sherman
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America by Angie Schmitt
Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis by Katherine Levine Einstein, David M. Glick, and Maxwell Palmer
From Mobility to Accessibility: Transforming Urban Transportation and Land-Use Planning by Jonathan Levine, Joe Grengs, and Louis A. Merlin
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them) by Lucy Jones
Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation by Sonia Hirt
The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation by Steen W. Semes
Parking and the City by Donald Shoup
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
A Better Way to Zone: Ten Principles to Create More Livable Cities by Donald L. Elliott
Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change by Peter Calthorpe
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
Planning Paradise: Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon by Peter Walker & Patrick Hurley
For More Information
Contact Laura Buhl, AICP, for more information on the OAPA Planners Book Group.