Council Office Resource Library

May 31, 2024

Ever wonder what your city council is reading? We've put together a list of titles.

The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)

By Shane Phillips

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Better Buses, Better Cities : How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit

By Steven Higashide

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Building the Cycling City : the Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

By Melissa Bruntlett

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The Color of Law: a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By Richard Rothstein

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Crabgrass Frontier: the Suburbanization of the United States

By Kenneth T. Jackson

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

By Jane Jacobs

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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing—and Democracy—in America's Most Prosperous Cities

By Conor Dougherty

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A History of Bellevue and Surrounding Areas

By Doug Underwood

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Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

By Jarrett Walker

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Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

By Richard Rothstein

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Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits

By Ansley T. Erickson

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Nashville: an American Self-Portrait

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Nashville Pikes: Volume One: 150 Years Along Franklin Pike and Granny White Pike

By Ridley Wills

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Nashville Pikes: Volume Two: 150 Years Along Hillsboro Pike

By Ridley Wills

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Nashville Pikes: Volume Three: 150 Years Along Harding Pike

By Ridley Wills

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Nashville Pikes: Volume Four: 150 Years Along Charlotte, Clifton, and Hydes Ferry Pikes

By Ridley Wills

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Nashville Streets and Their Stories

By Ridley Wills

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One Mile Radius: Building Community from the Core

By Mark Deutschmann

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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By Henry Grabar

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The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City

By Christine Kreyling

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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

By Paris Marx

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The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

By William H. Whyte

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Start-Up City: Inspiring Private and Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Fun

By Gabe Klein

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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

By Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow

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The 99% Invisible City: a Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

By Roman Mars

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Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places

By Jeff Speck

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Jenny manages the library website. She reads mostly romance, DIY, and home decorating books. Nearly all of that reading is done with ebooks and digital magazines from the library. Want to know about ebooks, digital magazines, or overused romance novel phrases? She'll give you an earful.

Council Office Resource Library

The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)

Better Buses, Better Cities : How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit

Building the Cycling City : the Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

The Color of Law: a Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Crabgrass Frontier: the Suburbanization of the United States

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing—and Democracy—in America's Most Prosperous Cities

A History of Bellevue and Surrounding Areas

How to Lie with Statistics

Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking About Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives

The Image of the City

Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits

Nashville: an American Self-Portrait

Nashville Pikes: Volume One: 150 Years Along Franklin Pike and Granny White Pike

Nashville Pikes: Volume Two: 150 Years Along Hillsboro Pike

Nashville Pikes: Volume Three: 150 Years Along Harding Pike

Nashville Pikes: Volume Four: 150 Years Along Charlotte, Clifton, and Hydes Ferry Pikes

Nashville Streets and Their Stories

One Mile Radius: Building Community from the Core

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Peak Performance

The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

The Smart Growth Manual

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Start-Up City: Inspiring Private and Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Fun

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

The 99% Invisible City: a Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design

Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places

Why Architecture Matters

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