Here is this week’s list of articles for urbanists:

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  200th Birthday for the Map That Made New York: Described by some historians as the single most important document in New York City’s history, the right-angled layout spurred unimagined development. (New York Times)

• City Livability Rankings, and the struggle for the Complete City: Vancouver’s Director of City Planning, Brent Toderian, looks at Vancouver’s status as the worlds’ most livable city and the work left to be done. (Planetizen)

• The Increasing Importance of Physical Location: Why information technology will increase the value of dense urban areas and accelerate the movement of people into cities. (Harvard Business Review)

• Why Cities? But cities don’t thrive or survive when approached with an attitude framed by individual or corporate (the new “individual”) necessity. (CityTank)

• Can’t I just be pro-transportation? Erza Klein takes a critical look at the current transpiration wars brewing across America (The Washington Post)