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
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time
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Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
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
Cities for People
The Image of the City
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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Jane Jacobs
To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts four conditions are indispensable: 1. The district, and indeed as many of its internal parts as possible, must serve more than one primary function; preferably more than two... 2. Most blocks must be short; that is, streets and opportunities to turn corners must be frequent. 3. The district must mingle buildings that vary in age and condition, including a good proportion of old ones so that they vary in the economic yield they ...more
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Christopher    Brown
The idea of the frontier runs so deep in American culture that we internalize the idea that to find nature—real nature—you have to get in your car and drive out of town.
Christopher Brown, A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

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