Urbanisme

Les villes vibrent de possibilités et de périls alors que l'humanité en fait de plus en plus son foyer, façonnant notre avenir à travers l'architecture, les politiques publiques, la technologie et le design. Ces livres explorent comment les espaces urbains influencent nos vies, nos économies et nos communautés, révélant à la fois les défis de la vie urbaine moderne et les solutions innovantes pour bâtir des métropoles plus vivables et équitables.

Urbanisme Résumés de livres

Walkable City

par Jeff Speck • 2012

America's downtowns died for parking. The rules for bringing them back, starting at the curb.

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏘️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🚗 Car Dependency 🌱 Smart Growth

Walkable City

America's downtowns died for parking. The rules for bringing them back, starting at the curb.

par Jeff Speck 2012 312 pages

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏘️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🚗 Car Dependency 🌱 Smart Growth

Happy City

par Charles Montgomery • 2012

Sprawl isolates and exhausts. The evidence for repairing cities around human connection and joy.

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🏙️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🧠 Urban Psychology 🚗 Car Dependency 🌳 Public Space

Happy City

Sprawl isolates and exhausts. The evidence for repairing cities around human connection and joy.

par Charles Montgomery 2012 400 pages

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🏙️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🧠 Urban Psychology 🚗 Car Dependency 🌳 Public Space

Rebel Cities

par David Harvey • 2012

Capitalism doesn't just happen in cities. It happens through them, and the rent is coming due.

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🌆 Urban Capitalism 🗺️ Marxist Geography 🏛️ Political Economy ✊ Anti-Capitalism 📉 Financial Crises

Rebel Cities

Capitalism doesn't just happen in cities. It happens through them, and the rent is coming due.

par David Harvey 2012 206 pages

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🌆 Urban Capitalism 🗺️ Marxist Geography 🏛️ Political Economy ✊ Anti-Capitalism 📉 Financial Crises

How to Kill a City

par Peter Moskowitz • 2017

Four cities, one playbook: policy and profit, not hipsters, push out the poor and replace them.

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🏗️ Gentrification 🏠 Housing Policy 🧱 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Neoliberal Urbanism 📈 Real Estate Speculation

How to Kill a City

Four cities, one playbook: policy and profit, not hipsters, push out the poor and replace them.

par Peter Moskowitz 2017 272 pages

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🏗️ Gentrification 🏠 Housing Policy 🧱 Racial Capitalism 🏛️ Neoliberal Urbanism 📈 Real Estate Speculation

Palaces for the People

par Eric Klinenberg • 2018

Stronger than seawalls: the shared spaces that hold communities together when everything breaks.

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🏙️ Public Space 🧱 Placemaking 🤝 Social Capital 💪 Community Resilience 📚 Libraries And Community

Palaces for the People

Stronger than seawalls: the shared spaces that hold communities together when everything breaks.

par Eric Klinenberg 2018 288 pages

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🏙️ Public Space 🧱 Placemaking 🤝 Social Capital 💪 Community Resilience 📚 Libraries And Community

Déclin et survie des grandes villes américaines

par Jane Jacobs • 1961

Slums with low crime and safe sidewalks: the invisible logic cities follow when planners look away.

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏚️ Urban Renewal 🚶 Street Life 🌆 New Urbanism 🏘️ Urban Density

Déclin et survie des grandes villes américaines

Slums with low crime and safe sidewalks: the invisible logic cities follow when planners look away.

par Jane Jacobs 1961 472 pages

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏚️ Urban Renewal 🚶 Street Life 🌆 New Urbanism 🏘️ Urban Density

Le triomphe de la ville

par Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

Poverty flocks to cities because cities are the escape route. The economic case for density.

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🏙️ Urban Economics 🏗️ City Planning 🏘️ Urban Density 🧠 Human Capital 💡 Knowledge Spillovers

Le triomphe de la ville

Poverty flocks to cities because cities are the escape route. The economic case for density.

par Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 pages

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🏙️ Urban Economics 🏗️ City Planning 🏘️ Urban Density 🧠 Human Capital 💡 Knowledge Spillovers

The Rise of the Creative Class

par Richard Florida • 2004

Jobs once followed factories. Now a class of creatives clusters in the most tolerant cities.

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🏙️ Urban Economics 🎨 Creative Industries 🧠 Knowledge Work 🌍 Economic Geography 🏗️ Place Making

The Rise of the Creative Class

Jobs once followed factories. Now a class of creatives clusters in the most tolerant cities.

par Richard Florida 2004 434 pages

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🏙️ Urban Economics 🎨 Creative Industries 🧠 Knowledge Work 🌍 Economic Geography 🏗️ Place Making

Smart Cities

par Anthony M. Townsend • 2013

Corporations are selling smart cities. A movement of civic hackers has a better blueprint.

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🏙️ Urban Technology 🔌 Digital Infrastructure 🗳️ Civic Technology 📊 Open Data 🌱 Grassroots Innovation

Smart Cities

Corporations are selling smart cities. A movement of civic hackers has a better blueprint.

par Anthony M. Townsend 2013 400 pages

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🏙️ Urban Technology 🔌 Digital Infrastructure 🗳️ Civic Technology 📊 Open Data 🌱 Grassroots Innovation

Uses of Disorder

par Richard Sennett • 1970

The young craving for purity is architecting our cities into sterile, segregated cages.

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🏙️ Urban Sociology 🧩 Identity Formation 🚧 Social Segregation 🏛️ Bureaucratic Power 💰 Affluent Isolation

Uses of Disorder

The young craving for purity is architecting our cities into sterile, segregated cages.

par Richard Sennett 1970 198 pages

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🏙️ Urban Sociology 🧩 Identity Formation 🚧 Social Segregation 🏛️ Bureaucratic Power 💰 Affluent Isolation

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem

par Gregg Colburn • 2022

Homelessness rates don't track mental illness or poverty. They track rent and vacancy rates.

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� Housing Policy 🏙️ Urban Economics 🏘️ Affordable Housing 🏡 Housing First 🗺️ Urban Planning

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem

Homelessness rates don't track mental illness or poverty. They track rent and vacancy rates.

par Gregg Colburn 2022 284 pages

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� Housing Policy 🏙️ Urban Economics 🏘️ Affordable Housing 🏡 Housing First 🗺️ Urban Planning

The Economy of Cities

par Jane Jacobs • 1969

Cities didn't follow farms; farms followed cities. That reversal explains every economic boom.

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🏙️ Urban Economics 📦 Import Substitution ⚙️ Division Of Labor 🔄 Systems Thinking 🔀 Heterodox Economics

The Economy of Cities

Cities didn't follow farms; farms followed cities. That reversal explains every economic boom.

par Jane Jacobs 1969 288 pages

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🏙️ Urban Economics 📦 Import Substitution ⚙️ Division Of Labor 🔄 Systems Thinking 🔀 Heterodox Economics

The Smart Enough City

par Ben Green • 2019

Smart cities dress up political problems as engineering ones. The fix is governance, not gadgets.

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🏙️ Smart Cities 🏛️ Urban Policy 💻 Technology Criticism ⚙️ Techno-Solutionism ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias

The Smart Enough City

Smart cities dress up political problems as engineering ones. The fix is governance, not gadgets.

par Ben Green 2019 223 pages

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🏙️ Smart Cities 🏛️ Urban Policy 💻 Technology Criticism ⚙️ Techno-Solutionism ⚖️ Algorithmic Bias

The New Urban Crisis

par Richard Florida • 2017

Why urban revival is driving inequality and pushing out the middle class.

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🏙️ Urban Inequality 🏘️ Gentrification 📊 Economic Segregation 🏠 Housing Affordability 🌐 Global Cities

The New Urban Crisis

Why urban revival is driving inequality and pushing out the middle class.

par Richard Florida 2017 336 pages

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🏙️ Urban Inequality 🏘️ Gentrification 📊 Economic Segregation 🏠 Housing Affordability 🌐 Global Cities

Against the smart city

par Adam Greenfield • 2013

Smart cities sell efficiency but deliver surveillance. The real operating system is people.

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🏙️ Smart Cities 📐 Urban Planning 🔬 Technological Critique 🤖 Algorithmic Control 💰 Neoliberal Urbanism

Against the smart city

Smart cities sell efficiency but deliver surveillance. The real operating system is people.

par Adam Greenfield 2013 152 pages

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🏙️ Smart Cities 📐 Urban Planning 🔬 Technological Critique 🤖 Algorithmic Control 💰 Neoliberal Urbanism

Extrastatecraft

par Keller Easterling • 2014

Free zones and broadband cables don't just move goods. They rewrite who governs the world.

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🏗️ Infrastructure Politics 📐 Architectural Theory 🌍 Global Urbanism 🕸️ Network Thinking 🗺️ Spatial Theory

Extrastatecraft

Free zones and broadband cables don't just move goods. They rewrite who governs the world.

par Keller Easterling 2014 252 pages

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🏗️ Infrastructure Politics 📐 Architectural Theory 🌍 Global Urbanism 🕸️ Network Thinking 🗺️ Spatial Theory

Escaping the Housing Trap

par Charles L. Marohn Jr. • 2024

Housing can't be both affordable shelter and a good investment. That conflict is the trap.

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏠 Housing Policy 📜 Zoning Reform 💰 Affordability Crisis 🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism

Escaping the Housing Trap

Housing can't be both affordable shelter and a good investment. That conflict is the trap.

par Charles L. Marohn Jr. 2024 225 pages

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏠 Housing Policy 📜 Zoning Reform 💰 Affordability Crisis 🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism

Tactical Urbanism

par Mike Lydon • 2014

How to hack your city with paint, planters, and pop-up parks, and prove change is possible now.

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🛠️ Diy Urbanism 🎨 Creative Placemaking 🏗️ Pop-Up Urbanism 🚲 Street Reclamation 🗳️ Participatory Planning

Tactical Urbanism

How to hack your city with paint, planters, and pop-up parks, and prove change is possible now.

par Mike Lydon 2014 256 pages

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🛠️ Diy Urbanism 🎨 Creative Placemaking 🏗️ Pop-Up Urbanism 🚲 Street Reclamation 🗳️ Participatory Planning

Capital City

par Samuel Stein • 2019

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

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🏙️ Urban Political Economy 🏗️ Gentrification Studies 🚚 Urban Displacement 📖 Marxist Urban Theory 🏠 Housing Justice

Capital City

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

par Samuel Stein 2019 202 pages

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🏙️ Urban Political Economy 🏗️ Gentrification Studies 🚚 Urban Displacement 📖 Marxist Urban Theory 🏠 Housing Justice

Road to Nowhere

par Paris Marx • 2022

The tech-driven transportation future is a dead end. The real fix: fewer cars, better transit.

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🚗 Car Culture 🏙️ Urban Planning 💻 Techno-Solutionism 🚌 Public Transit 🛵 Gig Economy

Road to Nowhere

The tech-driven transportation future is a dead end. The real fix: fewer cars, better transit.

par Paris Marx 2022 240 pages

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🚗 Car Culture 🏙️ Urban Planning 💻 Techno-Solutionism 🚌 Public Transit 🛵 Gig Economy

Radical Cities

par Justin McGuirk • 2014

The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.

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🏚️ Informal Settlements ✊ Activist Architecture 🌎 Latin American Cities ⚖️ Urban Inequality 🚌 Public Transit

Radical Cities

The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.

par Justin McGuirk 2014 304 pages

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🏚️ Informal Settlements ✊ Activist Architecture 🌎 Latin American Cities ⚖️ Urban Inequality 🚌 Public Transit

Cities

par Monica L. Smith • 2019

Cities were never about efficiency. They were about all the things you cannot get alone.

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🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Ancient Cities 🏺 Material Culture 🌆 Urban Anthropology 🚶 Everyday Urbanism

Cities

Cities were never about efficiency. They were about all the things you cannot get alone.

par Monica L. Smith 2019 304 pages

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🏙️ Urban History 🏛️ Ancient Cities 🏺 Material Culture 🌆 Urban Anthropology 🚶 Everyday Urbanism

Streetfight

par Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

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🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space 🚲 Bike Advocacy 🚌 Transit Equity

Streetfight

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

par Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 pages

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🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space 🚲 Bike Advocacy 🚌 Transit Equity

Healthy Buildings

par Joseph G. Allen • 2020

You spend 72 years indoors. The air you breathe there has a balance sheet.

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🍃 Indoor Air Quality 🧱 Building Science 🏢 Workplace Design 🧠 Environmental Psychology ☣️ Environmental Toxins

Healthy Buildings

You spend 72 years indoors. The air you breathe there has a balance sheet.

par Joseph G. Allen 2020 304 pages

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🍃 Indoor Air Quality 🧱 Building Science 🏢 Workplace Design 🧠 Environmental Psychology ☣️ Environmental Toxins

Municipal Dreams

par John Boughton • 2018

Britain built some of the world's best public housing, then spent 40 years dismantling it.

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🏠 Social Housing 🏙️ Urban History 📋 Housing Policy 🏛️ Welfare State 🏭 Privatization

Municipal Dreams

Britain built some of the world's best public housing, then spent 40 years dismantling it.

par John Boughton 2018 336 pages

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🏠 Social Housing 🏙️ Urban History 📋 Housing Policy 🏛️ Welfare State 🏭 Privatization

Curbing Traffic

par Melissa Bruntlett • 2021

Dutch cities prove removing cars heals loneliness, restores childhood, and makes everyone richer.

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🏛️ Urban Policy 🏗️ Urban Design 🚗 Car Dependency 🚶 Walkable Cities 🌳 Public Space

Curbing Traffic

Dutch cities prove removing cars heals loneliness, restores childhood, and makes everyone richer.

par Melissa Bruntlett 2021 240 pages

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🏛️ Urban Policy 🏗️ Urban Design 🚗 Car Dependency 🚶 Walkable Cities 🌳 Public Space

A Pattern Language

par Christopher W. Alexander • 1977

253 patterns for building, from city to doorknob, that let communities design places people love.

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🏛️ Architectural Design 🏙️ Urban Planning 👥 Human-Scale Environments 🏞️ Placemaking 🗳️ Participatory Design

A Pattern Language

253 patterns for building, from city to doorknob, that let communities design places people love.

par Christopher W. Alexander 1977 1171 pages

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🏛️ Architectural Design 🏙️ Urban Planning 👥 Human-Scale Environments 🏞️ Placemaking 🗳️ Participatory Design

The Lies of the Land

par Steven Conn • 2023

Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.

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🌾 Rural America 📜 Agrarian Myths ⏳ Nostalgia Politics 🏘️ Suburban Expansion 🏚️ Deindustrialization

The Lies of the Land

Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.

par Steven Conn 2023 320 pages

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🌾 Rural America 📜 Agrarian Myths ⏳ Nostalgia Politics 🏘️ Suburban Expansion 🏚️ Deindustrialization

Who's Your City?

par Richard Florida • 2008

Forty regions hold two-thirds of the world's wealth. Your zip code now outweighs your resume.

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🗺️ Economic Geography 🔗 Clustering Effects 😊 Place And Happiness 🧠 Knowledge Economy 🌐 Global Cities

Who's Your City?

Forty regions hold two-thirds of the world's wealth. Your zip code now outweighs your resume.

par Richard Florida 2008 352 pages

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🗺️ Economic Geography 🔗 Clustering Effects 😊 Place And Happiness 🧠 Knowledge Economy 🌐 Global Cities

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

par William H. Whyte • 1980

A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.

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🏙️ Public Space 🚶 Street Life 🏘️ Human-Scale Urbanism ✨ Placemaking 🌍 Urban Anthropology

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

A decade of time-lapse footage on New York plazas upended every assumption about what draws a crowd.

par William H. Whyte 1980 125 pages

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🏙️ Public Space 🚶 Street Life 🏘️ Human-Scale Urbanism ✨ Placemaking 🌍 Urban Anthropology

Zoned in the USA

par Sonia A. Hirt • 2014

The detached home with its own yard is globally rare. American zoning manufactured it at scale.

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🏛️ Zoning Law 🏙️ Urban Planning 🌍 Comparative Urbanism 🏡 American Sprawl 🏘️ Single-Family Housing

Zoned in the USA

The detached home with its own yard is globally rare. American zoning manufactured it at scale.

par Sonia A. Hirt 2014 256 pages

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🏛️ Zoning Law 🏙️ Urban Planning 🌍 Comparative Urbanism 🏡 American Sprawl 🏘️ Single-Family Housing

Paint Your Town Red

par Matthew Brown • 2021

38 million to 111 million: the spending shift that rebuilt a town.

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🏘️ Localism 🗳️ Economic Democracy 🤝 Worker Cooperatives 🛒 Local Procurement 🗣️ Participatory Democracy

Paint Your Town Red

38 million to 111 million: the spending shift that rebuilt a town.

par Matthew Brown 2021 176 pages

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🏘️ Localism 🗳️ Economic Democracy 🤝 Worker Cooperatives 🛒 Local Procurement 🗣️ Participatory Democracy

Vital Little Plans

par Jane Jacobs • 2016

Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.

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🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development 🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism 🏗️ Urban Renewal Critique

Vital Little Plans

Top-down planning kills cities. The sidewalk sees what the drafting table never will.

par Jane Jacobs 2016 544 pages

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🏙️ Urban Vitality 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏪 Mixed-Use Development 🌱 Bottom-Up Urbanism 🏗️ Urban Renewal Critique

The Option of Urbanism

par Christopher B. Leinberger • 2007

America's car suburbs were built by policy, not consumer choice. The market now wants the opposite.

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏘️ Sprawl 🏗️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏚️ Gentrification

The Option of Urbanism

America's car suburbs were built by policy, not consumer choice. The market now wants the opposite.

par Christopher B. Leinberger 2007 224 pages

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🏙️ Urban Planning 🏘️ Sprawl 🏗️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏚️ Gentrification

The Just City

par Susan S. Fainstein • 2010

Stop asking if a city is growing. Start asking who it's growing for.

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🏙️ Urban Policy 📐 Planning Theory ⚖️ Distributive Justice 🏛️ Urban Political Economy 💼 Neoliberal Critique

The Just City

Stop asking if a city is growing. Start asking who it's growing for.

par Susan S. Fainstein 2010 224 pages

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🏙️ Urban Policy 📐 Planning Theory ⚖️ Distributive Justice 🏛️ Urban Political Economy 💼 Neoliberal Critique

Life After Cars

par Sarah Goodyear • 2025

The cost of car dependency is hidden in plain sight. What happens when we build for people instead?

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🚗 Auto Culture 🏙️ Livable Cities 🚲 Tactical Urbanism 🅿️ Parking Reform 🚸 Traffic Safety

Life After Cars

The cost of car dependency is hidden in plain sight. What happens when we build for people instead?

par Sarah Goodyear 2025 300 pages

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🚗 Auto Culture 🏙️ Livable Cities 🚲 Tactical Urbanism 🅿️ Parking Reform 🚸 Traffic Safety

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

par Alan Ehrenhalt • 2012

American metros are inverting: affluence returns downtown, immigrants settle the suburbs.

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📊 Demographic Shifts 🏘️ Suburban Transformation 🏗️ Gentrification ☀️ Sun Belt Cities 🏙️ Density And Sprawl

The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

American metros are inverting: affluence returns downtown, immigrants settle the suburbs.

par Alan Ehrenhalt 2012 288 pages

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📊 Demographic Shifts 🏘️ Suburban Transformation 🏗️ Gentrification ☀️ Sun Belt Cities 🏙️ Density And Sprawl

Places of the Heart

par Colin Ellard • 2010

How every space you enter, room, street, or screen, quietly rewires your brain.

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🧠 Environmental Psychology 🏗️ Built Environment 🏙️ Urban Design 🌿 Biophilia 🏠 Place Attachment

Places of the Heart

How every space you enter, room, street, or screen, quietly rewires your brain.

par Colin Ellard 2010 256 pages

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🧠 Environmental Psychology 🏗️ Built Environment 🏙️ Urban Design 🌿 Biophilia 🏠 Place Attachment

Urban Acupuncture

par Jaime Lerner • 2003

Fast, precise interventions where a city hurts trigger chain reactions no master plan ever could.

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🏙️ Urban Design ⚡ Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space ♻️ Adaptive Reuse 🚲 Car-Free Cities

Urban Acupuncture

Fast, precise interventions where a city hurts trigger chain reactions no master plan ever could.

par Jaime Lerner 2003 160 pages

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🏙️ Urban Design ⚡ Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space ♻️ Adaptive Reuse 🚲 Car-Free Cities

Why Cities Lose

par Jonathan A. Rodden • 2019

The left's real problem isn't gerrymandering: its voters are packed into cities.

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🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide 🗳️ Electoral Systems ✂️ Gerrymandering 📊 Proportional Representation 🌍 Political Geography

Why Cities Lose

The left's real problem isn't gerrymandering: its voters are packed into cities.

par Jonathan A. Rodden 2019 336 pages

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🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide 🗳️ Electoral Systems ✂️ Gerrymandering 📊 Proportional Representation 🌍 Political Geography

Building and Dwelling

par Richard Sennett • 2018

A city is two things: physical form and lived experience. Ethical design puts the second first.

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🏙️ Urban Design 👥 Urban Sociology 🏛️ Ethics Of Place 🤖 Smart Cities Critique 🤝 Participatory Planning

Building and Dwelling

A city is two things: physical form and lived experience. Ethical design puts the second first.

par Richard Sennett 2018 368 pages

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🏙️ Urban Design 👥 Urban Sociology 🏛️ Ethics Of Place 🤖 Smart Cities Critique 🤝 Participatory Planning

How Architecture Works

par Witold Rybczynski • 2013

How a single idea shapes a masterpiece: reading buildings through their plans, skins, and details.

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📐 Architectural Appreciation 🧱 Architectural Principles 🏛️ Architectural History 📜 Architectural Tradition 🌌 Phenomenology Of Space

How Architecture Works

How a single idea shapes a masterpiece: reading buildings through their plans, skins, and details.

par Witold Rybczynski 2013 368 pages

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📐 Architectural Appreciation 🧱 Architectural Principles 🏛️ Architectural History 📜 Architectural Tradition 🌌 Phenomenology Of Space

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