Urbanization


Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
The Little House
The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Megacities: The Politics of Urban Exclusion and Violence in the Global South
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World
The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight (Historical Studies of Urban America)
The Empire of Business
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Urbanization And Regional Disparities In Post-revolutionary Iran
The City in Indian History: Urban Demography, Society, and Politics
Alessandro Busà
“ And the space created by capital is a very seductive space indeed— provided you have the money. ”
― Alessandro Busà, The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite

George Monbiot
“ we can probably, as a nation, loose all our birds, and there is an increasing number of people who wouldn’t even notice. as we become more urban, we’re loosing our attachment ”
― George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

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