These are all books I own. Notes are included below each book. Mouse over the book title to see an image of the cover and the current price on Amazon.com.
An Architectural Guidebook to Philadelphia
Francis Morrone (ISBN 0879058900)
Materials, Structures and Standards
Julia McMorrough (ISBN 1592531938)
Modern Architecture Since 1900
William J. R. Curtis (ISBN 0714833568)
What Style Is It?
John C. Poppeliers & S. Allen Chambers (ISBN 0471250368)
A great (almost) pocket reference to most American architectural styles.
Designing Better Maps
Cynthia A. Brewer (ISBN 1589480899)
Geographic Information Systems and Science
Longley, Goodchild, Maguire & Rhind (ISBN 0471892750)
Statistics Hacks
Bruce Frey (ISBN 0596101643)
Town Planning in Practice
Raymond Unwin (ISBN 1568980043)
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow
Mark Monmonier (ISBN 0226534650)
Geography and Technology
Brunn, Cutter & Harrington (ISBN 1402018711)
How to Lie with Maps
Mark Monmonier (ISBN 0226534219)
A great book on how maps are used and distorted to fit an agenda.
Mapping Hacks
Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson & Jo Walsh (ISBN 0596007035)
Maps Are Territories
David Turnbull (ISBN 0226817059)
The Geography of Urban Transportation
Susan Hanson & Genevieve Giuliano (ISBN 1593850557)
Transit Maps of the World
Mark Ovenden (ISBN 0143112651)
WorldMinds
Janelle, Warf & Hansen (ISBN 1402016131)
American Gospel
Jon Meacham (ISBN 0812976665)
24 Great Rail Trails of New Jersey
Craig P. Della Penna (ISBN 1889787043)
A Field Guide to the Pine Barrens of New Jersey
Howard P. Boyd (ISBN 0937548197)
A Geography of New Jersey
Charles Stansfield (ISBN 0813525799)
A Guide to Green New Jersey
Lucy Rosenfeld & Marina Harrison (ISBN 0813532302)
An Encyclopedia of New Jersey
Michael Siegel (ISBN 0813533252)
Atlantic City
Vicki Gold Levi (ISBN 0898156130)
Boardwalk Empire
Nelson Johnson (ISBN 0937548499)
Country Roads of New Jersey
Judi Dash (ISBN 0658001795)
Digging New Jersey's Past
Richard Francis Veit (ISBN 0813531136)
Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey
Henry Charlton Beck (ISBN 0813510163)
Jersey Genesis
Henry Charlton Beck (ISBN 0813510155)
More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey
Henry Charlton Beck (ISBN 0813504325)
New Jersey Curiosities
Peter Genovese (ISBN 0762725273)
Our Town: Race, Housing and the Soul of Suburbia
David L. Kirp (ISBN 0813524563)
A great resource for the history behind the Mount Laurel affordable housing cases.
Pine Barrens Legends, Lore and Lies
William McMahon (ISBN 0912608196)
South Jersey Towns
William McMahon (ISBN 0813507189)
Tales of South Jersey
Jim Waltzer (ISBN 0813530075)
The Pine Barrens
John McPhee (ISBN 0374514429)
Twelve Days of Terror
Richard G. Fernicola (ISBN 1585745758)
Vacationing on the Jersey Shore
Charles Stansfield (ISBN 0811729702)
American Project
Sudhir Venkatesh (ISBN 0674008308)
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner (ISBN 006073132X)
Off the Books: The Underground Economy
Sudhir Venkatesh (ISBN 0674023552)
The Working Poor
David K. Shipler (ISBN 0375708219)
A Vision of Britain
Charles, Prince of Wales (ISBN 038526903X)
Cities of Tomorrow
Peter Hall (ISBN 0631232524)
Contemporary Urban Planning
John M. Levy (ISBN 0130835749)
Geography of Nowhere
James Howard Kunstler (ISBN 0671888250)
Geography of Nowhere got me interested in urban planning.
Great Streets
Allan B. Jacobs (ISBN 0262600234)
Home from Nowhere
James Howard Kunstler (ISBN 0684837374)
Land Use Planning and Development Regulation Law
Juergensmeyer & Roberts (ISBN 0314257802)
New American Urbanism
John A. Dutton (ISBN 8881187418)
Redesigning Cities
Jonathan Barnett (ISBN 1884829716)
Suburban Nation
Andres Duany, Jeff Speck (ISBN 0865476063)
The City in Mind
James Howard Kunstler (ISBN 0684845911)
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs (ISBN 067974195X)
The New Civic Art
Andres Duany (ISBN 0847821862)
The Urban Design Handbook
Urban Design Associates (ISBN 0393731065)
Understanding the Law of Zoning and Land Use Controls
Barlow Burke (ISBN 0820541125)
Visions for a New American Dream
Anton C. Nelessen (ISBN 1884829007)
A great guide to implementing New Urbanist principles from the local to regional levels.