Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre’s new book, How to Study Public Life (2013) has a great timeline of books related to public life studies. The following is a selected list of books from the timeline. While some are old favorites, there were a few that were new to me or I had forgotten about.

• Behavior in Public Places
• The Concise Townscape
• The Death and Life of Great American Cities
• Defensible Space; Crime Prevention Through Urban Design
• The Endless City
• The Exploding Metropolis
• The Hidden Dimension
• The Image of the City
• Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
• Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
• Livable Streets
• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
• People Places: Design Guidlines for Urban Open Space, 2nd Edition
• Personal Space: Behavioural Basis of Design
• S, M, L, XL
• The Silent Language
• The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
• Urbanism on Track: Application of Tracking Technologies in Urbanism – Volume 1 Research in Urbanism Series
• Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space
• What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs