Here is this weeks selection of news and views for urbanists.
Category: Urbanism
Posts related to cities and urban areas, their geography, economies, politics, social characteristics, as well as the effects on, and caused by, the built environment.
Friday Five: Articles for Urbanists [April 2nd-7th]
This week’s urbanism reading list.
Radiant City: Life in the Late Suburban Age
The award winning feature film about life in suburbia has recently been made available for free by the National Film Board of Canada.
A Brief History of Urbanism in North America: 1930-1939
The 1930’s saw two distinct trends with long-term impacts of the future of urbanism in North America, and particularly the United States.
A Brief History of Urbanism in North America: 1920-1929
The 1920’s saw a continuation of the codification of urban planning across the united States and Canada. Here are some key milestones.
Sounds of the City
Eric Eberhardt combines an audio soundtrack of local music; a police department radio stream and an evocative image of the city.
Friday 5 is Back! (March 19th-25th)
Here is this week’s list of articles for urbanists.
9 Urbanism FAILS
From FailBlog and EpicFail
Best Cities for Walking
This slideshow from Grist takes a tour of the top ten cities in the world for walking. The cities included are from a new list from travel publisher Lonely Planet and include Prague, Boston and Melbourne. From Grist: A great city is a great walking city. So which is the greatest of them all? Travel book…
Matt Yglesias on Motivating Density in Phoenix
Matt Yglesias comments on Phoenix’s light rail investment.