Urban Studies


Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
The Image of the City
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Planet of Slums
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Cities for People

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John Rennie Short
Three requirements are needed to achieve a compassionate city: a realization of the seriousness of the problems that people face; an appreciation that these are not self-inflicted; and the ability to imagine ourselves in the lives of others. The problems of rising inequality are serious. And while cultures of poverty do occur, they are responses to poverty, not the cause. It is the third requirement that prompts an imaginative creativity, a moral economy not just a market economy and a more expa ...more
John Rennie Short

In the urban environment literacy is almost as much a necessity as speech itself.
Robert Ezra Park, The City: Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment

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