Urbanism

Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment.

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Fitopolis, la città vivente
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Cities for People
The Image of the City
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
The High Cost of Free Parking
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

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Ray Oldenburg
The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.
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Laissée à elle-même, la bagnole finit par se détruire. Le temps que sa rapidité nous donne, elle nous le prend aussitôt pour nous expédier ailleurs. Comme le téléphone ou l'avion, pour une corvée qu'elle nous supprime, elle nous en invente mille. Elle nous mène à la campagne, mais bientôt, l'auto aidant, nous ne trouverons plus à cent kilomètres de voiture la baignade ou la verdure qui nous attendaient à cinq minutes de marche. ...more
Bernard Charbonneau, L'Hommauto

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