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Urbanism
Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment.
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Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who has stuffed us to the point of somnolence?
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― The Situationists and the City: A Reader
― The Situationists and the City: A Reader
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Railroad rights-of-way are weird zones that you can find almost anywhere in the American Landscape. Our urban spaces have worked to overwrite them in favor of motor vehicles in the era since World War II; often you can see the traces of tracks from old streetcar lines or intercity routes peeking through the asphalt of a public street. Sometimes the remains persist as actual ruins.
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A group for the exchange of books and ideas about cities.
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Current and former Polco people talkiong about cities.
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Books about urbanism (urban design, housing affordability, streets) with an Atlanta focus. Compi…more
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