Finance

• Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us

Urban (Re)Development

• The City in History
• City: Rediscovering the Center
• Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
  
• The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities
  
• The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Manmade Landscape
• The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems
• The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream
• The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream
• Regenerating Older Suburbs
• Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbia
  
• Smart Growth Manual: New Urbanism in American Communities
• Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
• Sustainable Residential Development: Planning and Design for Green Neighborhoods
  
• Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature
• Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World

Planning

• Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing
• Homes Within Reach: A Guide to the Planning, Design, and Construction of Affordable Homes and Communities
• A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development
• New Urbanism: Best Practices Guide
• Suburban Transformation
• Sustainable Housing Projects: Implementing a Conceptual Approach
• Urban Design Reclaimed

• Stewart Brand
• Christopher Leinberger
• James Rouse
• Witold Rybczynski

 Top Books of the Year

• Planetizen's Top Books of 2009