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
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
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
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Het recht van de snelste
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
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

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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

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
Charles Marohn

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