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Urban Planning
Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks and their accessibility. Many professional practitioners of urban planning, especially practitioners with the title "urban planner" study urban planning education, while some paraprofessional practitioners are educated in urban stud
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Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.
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― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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[...] most American cities have been designed or redesigned principally around the assumption of universal automotive use, resulting in obligatory car ownership, typically one per adult—starting at age sixteen. In these cities, and in most of our nation, the car is no longer an instrument of freedom, but rather a bulky, expensive, and dangerous prosthetic device, a prerequisite to viable citizenship.
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― Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
― Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Books about transportation, cities and the built environment.
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Books about urbanism (urban design, housing affordability, streets) with an Atlanta focus. Compi…more
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A no-pressure, VIRTUAL book group for like-minded lovers of planning for community, sustainabili…more
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Reading group of The Global Grid.
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