Books are great. A good pastime when you are bored, but also definitely worth making time for. There is an extremely wide array of books on architecture as well as urbanism. There are books available to borrow at the AnArchi desk, but our collection is a fraction of what is out there. With so many books to choose from, it might be quite a job to figure out what is useful or interesting for you. On this page, we present you with a selection of books, recommended by both the internet and professors at the TU/e. If you find a book you think you like, you can check whether it is available in the TU/e library. Of course, you can also buy every book off the internet or in a bookstore.
Self-education
The contact hours are not the only moments to learn about architecture and/or urbanism. There is a massive amount of knowledge and insight you can acquire without a professor’s help.
Henri Lefebre (1974) – The production of space
Doreen Massey (1994) Place, Space and Gender
Jane Jacobs (1970) The Economy of Cities
Christopher Alexander (1977) A Pattern Language
Randolf Hester (2006) Design for Ecological Democracy
Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (2011) The Blackwell Companion to the City
Nan Ellin (2013) Integral Urbanism & (2013) Good Urbanism; Six Steps to Creating Prosperous Places
Tigraan Haas and Krister Olson (2014) Emergent Urbanism: Urban Planning and Design in Times of Structural and Systemic Change
Asem Inaam (2016) Transformative Urbanism
Sheila Foster and Christopher laione (2022) Co-cities: Innovative transitions toward just and self-sustaining communities
Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Vinit Mukhija (2022) Just Urban Design: The struggle for the public city
Federico Savini, António Ferreira, and Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld (2022) Post-growth planning: Cities beyond the market economy