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Urbanism Reading List

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8 participants (89 books)

Overview

A collection of urbanism, transportation, and housing themed books I compiled for the Anti-Car Collective Discord (discord.gg/anticar). Contact @ZombieGoMoan on Discord or @ZombieGoMoan.bsky.social for recommended additions to this list.

Challenge Books

Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes by Mimi Sheller

Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes

Mimi Sheller

Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles by David L. Ulin

Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles

David L. Ulin

Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World by Lawrence D. Burns

Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World

Lawrence D. Burns

Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City by Colin Gordon

Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

Politics and Culture in Modern America

Colin Gordon

Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom by Sarah A. Seo

Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom

Sarah A. Seo

Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence by Peter Newman, Jeffrey Kenworthy

Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence

Peter Newman, Jeffrey Kenworthy

How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance by Susan Kurland, Jacqueline Edelberg

How to Walk to School: Blueprint for a Neighborhood School Renaissance

Susan Kurland, Jacqueline Edelberg

Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader

Unsafe at Any Speed

Ralph Nader

Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles by Patt Morrison, Paul Haddad

Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles

Patt Morrison, Paul Haddad

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

Deb Chachra

The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs

The Economy of Cities

Jane Jacobs

Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks by Andres Sevtsuk

Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks

City in the Twenty-First Century

Andres Sevtsuk