The editorial staff at Planetizen has compiled a “Best of 2004” list of urban planning related books. 

Listed in alphabetical order:

1.  A Field Guide To Sprawl by Dolores Hayden (W.W. Norton & Company, New York)

2.  Better Places, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse by Joshua Olsen (Urban Land Institute, Washington, D.C.)

3.  Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs (Random House, New York)

4.  Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Architecture by R. Stephen Sennott, Editor (Fitzroy Dearborn, New York)

5.  The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices by Sarah James and Torbjorn Lahti (New Society Publishers, British Columbia, Canada)

6.  The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster by Lawrence J. Vale and Thomas J. Campanella, Editors (Oxford University Press, Oxford)

7.  Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It by Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D. (One World, Ballantine Books, New York)

8.  Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World by Robert Neuwirth (Routledge Press, New York)

9.  Squares: A Public Places Design Guide for Urbanists by Mark C. Childs (University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque)

10. Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities by Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank and Richard Jackson (Island Press, Washington, D.C)

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