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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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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

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

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

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

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

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

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

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

Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

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

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

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

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

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

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

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

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

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

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

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

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

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

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

Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

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

London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City

Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul

Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality

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

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

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

Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

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

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

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

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

City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

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“ But ideal cities are very much the product of their own ages. Designed as complete urban statements, they bear the unmistakable imprint of their own culture and world view in every street and building. And yet to be successful a city has to be open to continuous development, free to evolve and grow with the demands of new times. Like science fiction accounts of the future, ideal cities quickly become outmoded. ”
― P.D. Smith

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“ 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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