Most Read This Week In Urbanism

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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Urbanism"

Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
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
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
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
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Zapaść. Reportaże z mniejszych miast
Fitopolis, la città vivente
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
There Are No Accidents
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality
The City and the World
The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t
City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis
Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it
The Intimate City: Walking New York
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
Město pro každého: Manuál urbanisty začátečníka
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing
A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul
American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life

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Beryl Markham
“ From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth hunting wild pig with the Nandi, later training racehorses for a living, and still later scouting Tanganyika and the waterless bush country between the Tana and Athi Rivers, by aeroplane, for elephant, I remained so happily provincial I was unable to discuss the boredom of being alive with any intelligence until I had gone to London and lived there for a year. Boredom, ...more ”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

Reinier de Graaf
“ Розмір вимагає компетентності. Вона стає мірою успіху за замовчуванням, умовою, що надихає до наслідування. Приклад, навіть тріумф аеропорту Атланти в тому, що він просто найбільший. Як виявилося після закінчення Олімпіади в Атланті, якщо бути найбільшим, то можна й залишатися найбільшим — принаймні деякий час. Ніщо не сприяє успіху так, як сам успіх. ”
― Reinier de Graaf, Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

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