Urbanism

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

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
Zapaść. Reportaże z mniejszych miast
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
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
The Image of the City
Cities for People
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

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The underlying values of the transportation system are not the American public's values. They are not even human values. They are values unique to a profession that has been empowered with reshaping an entire continent around a new, experimental idea of how to build human habitat. ...more
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Reinier de Graaf
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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