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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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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

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

Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

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

American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership

52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City

When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency

Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too

Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed

Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

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

Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet

Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System

Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis

A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City

Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t

Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it

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

American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life

Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See

Město pro každého: Manuál urbanisty začátečníka

London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City

Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems

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“ 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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“ 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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