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

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Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew Frederick

The Quest for College Heights by Sherman Lewis

Jane Jacobs

18 books — 5 voters

The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler

Fuckcars

88 books — 11 voters

La Septième Fonction du langage by Laurent Binet

La carte et le territoire by Michel Houellebecq

Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier by Patrick Modiano

Littérature Urbaine

85 books — 7 voters

Public Transportation and Why It Is Awesome

124 books — 11 voters

Jerusalem

40 books — 17 voters

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer by Charles L. Marohn Jr.

Escaping the Housing Trap by Charles L. Marohn Jr.

Strong Towns Vancouver Faves

12 books — 5 voters

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― Reinier de Graaf, Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

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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? ...more ”
― Tom McDonough, The Situationists and the City: A Reader

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