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Jane Jacobs’ The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Ray Oldenburg • The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
All of these thinkers opposed bigness and prescribed a greater humility about one’s unavoidable ignorance. No one could fully understand all the facts of the dynamic market any more than one could weigh the true costs of introducing a vast new flow of traffic through neighborhoods like New York’s SoHo and West Village, which had developed organical
... See moreTim Wu • The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Vintage)
Modern cities operate under an economic theory that is less than 300 years old, and our theory of evolution is less than 150, so we don’t yet fully understand their implications. We have not developed an overarching meh to energize our cities, to permeate them with a worldview that aligns our economic, technological, and social advances with the we
... See moreJonathan F. P. Rose • The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
Brendan Boyle • Spain's fix for a lonely planet
David Spinks • The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage
Linus Lee • A cellular theory of communities | thesephist.com
Patrick Tanguay • Conscientious Urban Technology
Many of these measures draw on an approach called shared space, pioneered by Hans Monderman, a Dutch traffic engineer. In 1968 he designed a residential street in the city of Delft where equal priority is given to cars, bicycles, and pedestrians, forcing road users to pay attention to one another. “When you don’t exactly know who has right of way,
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