Best reads on Urban Development/Geography?
Wikipedia
>>1183583
http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Community-Leon-Krier/dp/1597265799
I read Life and Death of the Great American City.
All I got was mixed use zoning and lots of pedestrians.
>>1183628
>All I got was mixed use zoning and lots of pedestrians.
That's a good idea though.
>>1183583
Urban Development/Geography For Dummies.
>>1183583
Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
Book by Richard Sennett
makes me wet only thinking about it.
Not David Harvey.
Doing my Masters in Spatial Planning/Urbanism, from Britain
Whoever said not David Harvey is trolling, "A Brief History of Neoliberalism" is a fundamental textbook for understanding urbanism today (I say this as someone critical of his ideological position)
Some other authors that have been instrumental in basic understanding is Phil Allmendinger, Patsy Healey, Mark Tewdr-Jones. They've all been involved putting together essential textbooks
Personally I'm interested in conflict and city.
-Newman, Oscar - Creating Defensible Space
-Shirlow & Murtagh - Belfast Segregation, Violence and the City
-Nadel, Barbara A (2004) Building Security_ Handbook for Architectural Planning and Design
-Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy - Jerusalem and Northern Ireland
-Cities, Change and Conflict - A Political Economy of Urban Life
Arthur O'Sullivan - Urban Economics is worth a read. It's a textbook, so it's a little on the dry side, but very informative.
>>1186153
I'll give Harvey a chance. Not big on Marxism, personally, but I'm familiar with it.
Granite Garden by Ann Spirn is a great intro to modern, sustainable urban planning. Whats scary about this book is it was written in the 1980s and people STILL haven't come up with a better solution than her.
>>1183583
>>1183583
The book of the prophet Nahum.
