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Walkable City Rules
Walkaable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places © 2018 Jeff Speck312 pages In Walkable Cities, Jeff Speck argued for the virtues of a city optimized for pedestrian travel, and offered ten general guidelines for making it happen — … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged bicycles, cities, Politics-CivicInterest, urbanism
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Happy City
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives through Urban Design© 2013 Charles Montgomery368 pages City air makes one free, but — happy? Throughout the 20th century, Americans fled the urban centers seeking Arcadian bliss. They didn’t find it, and despite an abundance … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged cities, civic awareness, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, urbanism
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This Just In
During the weekend I said in comments here that I would love to see a book about spontaneous or emergent order that crossed disciplines. Well, by golly, now there is one — and it’s by Matt Ridley, who penned The … Continue reading
Crabgrass Frontier
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States© 1985 Kenneth Jackson432 pages For thousands of years, people lived in either the country or the city, but with the coming of the industrial revolution that changed, and especially in America. … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged America, cities, civic awareness, critical history, history, housing, manners and morals, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, social history, transportation, urbanism
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Straphanger
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile336 pages© 2012 Taras Grescoe The cheap energy era is over, unless someone invents a Star Trek replicator that can magick barrels of oil into existence. Cities across the world are working … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged America, China, cities, civic awareness, Denmark, France, history, Japan, Politics-CivicInterest, transportation, trolleys!, urbanism
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Pedaling Revolution
Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities© 2009 Jeff Mapes288 pages That’s some serious wind resistance there, buddy. Governments across the world today are beset by problems common to all: rising fuel prices and obesity rates, the ever-present spectre … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews
Tagged bicycles, children, cities, civic activism, civic awareness, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, transportation, urbanism
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Walkable Cities
Walkable Cities: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time© 2012 Jeff Speck312 pages For most of human history, cities were limited to the area that people could cover on foot within a day, but the advent … Continue reading
Home from Nowhere
Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century© 1998 James Howard Kunstler320 pages “History doesn’t believe anybody’s advertising.” (p.1) James Howard Kunstler penned The Geography of Nowhere in an attempt to answer the question: why is America … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, cities, civic awareness, humanities, James Kunstler, Politics-CivicInterest, urbanism
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Thoughts on Building Strong Towns
Thoughts on Building Strong Towns, Volume I© 2012 Chuck Marohn174 pages$9.95 In California, school districts are being forced to suspend their bus routes. In Alabama, Jefferson County – home to the state’s largest city, Birmingham – has gone bankrupt. Basic … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck Marohn, cities, civic awareness, economics, essays, goods/services, infrastructure, Politics-CivicInterest, sustainability, transportation, urbanism
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The Green Metropolis
The Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability© 2009 David Owen357 pages Green is probably not the word that comes to mind at the mention of Manhattan, but to David Owen, few … Continue reading