Urbanism

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

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
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
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Fitopolis, la città vivente
The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Cities for People
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
The Image of the City
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
The High Cost of Free Parking
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

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Umberto Eco
The advantage of a big city, move on a few meters and you find solitude again.
Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

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

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