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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
Zoning. Zoning policy to protect small towns and the countryside around them. Greenbelt zoning was defined by Ebenezer Howard at the turn of the century and has yet to be taken seriously by American governments.
Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
The Las Vegas Strip is a monument to our nation’s cult of eternal childishness. It plays off of our fear of growing up.
Chris Hedges • Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Enough is the antithesis of unchecked growth because growth encourages mindless consumption and enough requires constant questioning and awareness.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
In retrospect I understand that this was utter insanity. Wider, faster, treeless roads not only ruin our public places, they kill people. Taking highway standards and applying them to urban and suburban streets, and even county roads, costs us thousands of lives every year. There is no earthly reason why an engineer would ever design a 14-foot lane
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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If more and bigger highways mean more traffic, does the same logic work in reverse? The latest twist in the induced demand story might be called reduced demand, which seems to be what happens when “vital” arteries are removed from cities. The traffic just goes away. The two best-known American examples remain New York’s West Side Highway and San
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