Urbanism

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

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
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
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Cities for People
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)
Dark Age Ahead by Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsVital Little Plans by Jane Jacobs101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School by Matthew FrederickThe Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
17 books — 4 voters

La Septième Fonction du langage by Laurent BinetLa carte et le territoire by Michel HouellebecqPour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier by Patrick ModianoGens De Dublin by James JoyceUlysse by James Joyce
Littérature Urbaine
85 books — 7 voters

The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinHappy City by Charles MontgomeryThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsArbitrary Lines by M. Nolan GrayPaved Paradise by Henry Grabar
Urban Studies & Planning
67 books — 3 voters


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