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Tag Archives: urbanism
People Habitat
People Habitat: 25 Ways to Think About Greener, Healthier Cities© 2014 F. Kaid Benfield304 pages The built environment can have an enormous effect on human happiness, facilitating it or obstructing it; think of the frustration of taking care of errands … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged cities, essays, Politics-CivicInterest, sustainability, urbanism
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town© 2021 Chuck Marohn 272 pages Chuck Marohn is a licensed engineer and urban planner who, in 2008, began sharing his concerns that the current approach to both building and financing … Continue reading
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Tagged Chuck Marohn, cities, civic awareness, infrastructure, transportation, urbanism
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2022: A World of Cities
I’m posting this largely for planning purposes. (I’d made the header at some point last year….bit of a shame not to use it!). I have a few titles already in hand for this, and hope to pursue it further in … Continue reading
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
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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
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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
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Tagged architecture, cities, civic awareness, politics, Politics-CivicInterest, social criticism, Society and Culture, transportation, trolleys!, urbanism
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