Urbanism

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

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Zapaść. Reportaże z mniejszych miast
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Fitopolis, la città vivente
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
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
Cities for People
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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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Reinier de Graaf
“ Рацію завжди має життя, а не архітектор. Ле Корбюзье (наприкінці життя) ”
― Reinier de Graaf, Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

Jane Jacobs
“ Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity. ”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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