Reading List
Organizing, Advocacy, Politics
Articles/papers
- Bernstein, Laura. "How To Talk To Your NIMBY Parents". The Urbanist, 2016-10-31.
- Bosetti, Nicolas, and Sam Sims, the Centre for London. "STOPPED: Why People Oppose New Residential Developments in Their Back Yard." 20 July 2016. study examining people's reasons for resisting new housing development.
- Fahey, Anna. "A Blueprint for Better Housing Messages" SIghtline.org (April 5, 2017).
- Fahey. Anna. "6 Tips for Talking Housing Solutions." Sightline.org (October 26, 2016).
- Lingle, Colin, and Anna Fahey. "Seattle's Housing Affordability & Livability Agenda in the News: A Sightline Institute Media Audit." Sightline.org, August 8, 2016.
- Stein, Debra. "The Ethics of Housing and NIMBYism." Affordable Housing Finance, February 2006.
- Stein, Debra. "Overcoming NIMBY Opposition Before It Stalls Your Project."
Multi-Housing News Magazine On-Line, December 29, 2008
Books
- Alinsky, Saul. Rules for Radicals (1971).
- Mathews, Joe. California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (2010).
- Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action.
Land Use, Zoning, Planning
Articles/papers
- Bertolet, Dan."Exclusionary Zoning Robs Our Cities of Their Best Qualities." Sightline.org, 2016-04-20.
- Fischel, William A. "Why Are There NIMBYs?" (2000). eminent US land-use/zoning scholar William provides a useful analysis of the NIMBY phenomenon from an economic perspective. https://www.dartmouth.edu/~wfischel/Papers/00-04.PDF.
- George, Henry. "What the Railroad Will Bring Us" (1868).
- Hills, Roderick M, Jr, and David Schleicher. "Can ‘Planning’ Deregulate land use?" Regulation (Cato Institute), Fall 2015.
"To overcome NIMBY politics and development constraints, urban areas should consider binding, comprehensive, citywide plans." - Kiefer, Matthew J. "The Social Functions of #NIMBYism" Harvard Graduate School of Design Magazine, 2008: a nuanced, relatively sympathetic examination of NIMBYism. Republished by Planetizen.
- Lens, Michael C., and Paavo Monkkonen. "Do Strict Land Use Regulations Make Metropolitan Areas More Segregated by Income?" Journal of the American Planning Association, Volume 82, 2016 - Issue 1. Published online 2015-12-28. DOI. UCLA Working Paper.
- Mangin, John."The New Exclusionary Zoning." Stanford Law & Policy Review Vol. 25:91 (2014). https://journals.law.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/stanford-law-policy-review/print/2014/01/mangin_25_stan._l._poly_rev_91.pdf.
- Schleicher, David. "City Unplanning". Yale Law Journal, __. A thorough review of US zoning's legal underpinnings, the economic dynamics produced, and some ways to counteract indesirable outcomes. PDF: http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/1162_m41e7ifa.pdf.
Books
- Avent, Ryan. The Gated City (2011).
- Babcock. The Zoning Game (1966).
- Fischel, William A. Zoning Rules!: The Economics of Land Use Regulation (2015).
- Fulton, William, and Paul Shigley. Guide to California Planning (4th edition, 2012).
- George, Henry. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy (1879).
- Hall, Peter. Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (2002).
- Hirt, Sonia. Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation (Cornell University Press, 2014).
- Levy, John M. Contemporary Urban Planning (9th Edition, 2010).
- McHarg, Ian L. Design With Nature (1969).
"pioneered the concept of ecological planning...continues to be one of the most widely celebrated books on landscape architecture and land-use planning." -Wikipedia. - Shoup, Donald. The High Cost of Free Parking.
- Toll, Seymour. Zoned American (1969). Outstanding legal/cultural study of the origins and development of US zoning practices.
Resource Guides
- 100 Essential Books of Planning, from American Planning Association (2009).
Housing
Articles/papers
- Bosetti, Nicolas, and Sam Sims, the Centre for London. "STOPPED: Why People Oppose New Residential Developments in Their Back Yard." 20 July 2016. An excellent study examining people's reasons for resisting new housing development. ISBN: 978‑0‑9932416‑7‑3.
- Boston Globe Editorial Board. "Obama's YIMBY moment" 2016-10-12.
- Boston Globe Editorial Board. "Make room for Granny, and other zoning fixes." 2016-05-27.
- Boston Globe Editorial Board. "How Cambridge and Lexington invented new housing." Boston Globe, 2016-05-01.
- California Legislative Analyst's Office. "Perspectives on Helping Low-Income Californians Afford Housing." 2016-02-09.
- California Legislative Analyst's Office. "California’s High Housing Costs: Causes and Consequences." 2015-03-17.
- Cutler, Kim-Mai. "How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)." TechCrunch. 2014-04-14.
- Durning, Alan, et al. Legalizing Inexpensive Housing (article series). Sightline.org.
- Hertz, Daniel. "Housing can’t be a good investment and affordable.". City Observatory, 2016-07-20.
- Jacobus, Rick."Why We Must Build." Shelterforce, 2016-03-09.
- Ramos, Dante. "To avoid housing nightmare, say ‘yes in my back yard’". Boston Globe, 2016-07-24.
- Whitehouse.gov. Housing Development Toolkit. 2016-09-26.
- Yglesias, Matthew. The Rent is Too Damn High.
- Zuk, Miriam, and Karen Chapple. "Housing Production, Filtering and Displacement: Untangling the Relationships." Institute for Governmental Studies (University of California) Research Brief, May 2016.
Books
- Bratt, Rachel G, Michael E. Stone, and Chester Hartman, editors. A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda (2006).
- Davies, Colin. The Prefabricated Home (2005).
- Glaeser, Edward L., and Joseph Gyourko. Rethinking Federal Housing Policy: How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable. (American Enterprise Institute, 2008).
- Hohmann, Jessie.The Right to Housing: Laws, Concepts, Possibilities. (2013).
- Heben, Andrew. Tent City Urbanism: From Self-Organized Camps to Tiny House Villages (2014).
- Riis, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890).
- Schwartz, Alex F. Housing Policy in the United States. (3rd Edition, 2014). ISBN: 978-0415836500.
- Tighe, J. Rosie. The Affordable Housing Reader. (2012).
- Turner, John F. C., editor. Freedom to Build : Dweller Control of the Housing Process (1972).
- Turner, John F. C. Housing By People: Towards Autonomy in Building Environments (1976).
- Walllis, Allan D. Wheel Estate: The Rise and Decline of Mobile Homes (1997).
- Wright, Gwendolyn. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (1983).
Urbanism
Articles/papers
- Alexander, Christopher. A city is not a tree. (1965). [suggested by Matin Barner]
- Marcuse, Peter. "Gentrification, Abandonment, and Displacement: Connections, Causes, and Policy Responses in New York City." Urban Law Annual ; Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law, Volume 28 (January 1985). http://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1396&context=law_urbanlaw.
- Mumford, Lewis. What is a City? article in Architectural Record, 1937.
[suggested by Tim McCormick]- Zuk, Miriam Zuk; Ariel H. Bierbaum, Karen Chapple, Karolina Gorska, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Paul Ong, and Trevor Thomas. "Gentrification, Displacement and the Role of Public Investment: A Literature Review". Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Working Paper), August 24, 2015. http://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/working-papers/2015/august/gentrification-displacement-role-of-public-investment/
(funded by the California Air Resources Board as part of the project "Developing a New Methodology for Analyzing Potential Displacement.")
- Zuk, Miriam Zuk; Ariel H. Bierbaum, Karen Chapple, Karolina Gorska, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Paul Ong, and Trevor Thomas. "Gentrification, Displacement and the Role of Public Investment: A Literature Review". Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (Working Paper), August 24, 2015. http://www.frbsf.org/community-development/publications/working-papers/2015/august/gentrification-displacement-role-of-public-investment/
Books
- Alexander, Christopher. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (1977).
- Calthorpe, Peter. The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. (1993)
- Glaeser, Edward, The Triumph of the City (2011).
- Goodman, Robert. After the Planners (1973).
- Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961).
- Lydon, Mike. Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (2015).
- Montgomery, Charles. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (2014).
- Moretti, Enrico. The New Geography of Jobs. (2012).
- Mumford, Lewis.The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (1961).
- Sennett, Richard, ed. Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities (1969).
- Smith, Neil. The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (1996).
- Speck, Jeff. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time.
San Francisco / Bay Area history and issues
Articles/papers
- Cutler, Kim-Mai. "How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained)." TechCrunch. 2014-04-14.
Books
- Bagwell, Beth. Oakland The Story of a City (1982; 2nd edition 2012).
- Brechin, Gray. Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (2001).
- DeLeon, Richard. Left coast city: progressive politics in San Francisco, 1975-1991 (1992).
- Hartman, Chester. City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco (2002).
- Polledri, Paolo. Visionary San Francisco (1990).
- Self, Robert O. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. (Princeton University Press, 2003).
Homelessness
Articles/papers
Books