Every Friday I handpick five articles on urbanism and related topics that I think my readers will find interesting.  Here’s this week;s crop:

• Study: Biking Infrastructure Projects Create More Jobs Than Auto-Based Initiatives: Bicycling is cleaner, more efficient, and in many cases more fun than driving a car around the city. Now a study from the Political Economy Research Institute says that building bike infrastructures creates up to twice as many jobs than auto-based infrastructure projects. (Fast Company)  Related: Designing and Funding a Bicycle Revolution in our Cities.

• Against a Notion of Urban Science: A well-reasoned rebuttal to New York Times Magazine’s article. “A Physicist Solves the City”  that looked at the work of Geoffrey West. (Urban Omnibus)

• On Beyond Infill: The planning profession largely pays obligatory homage to infill in plans and reports, but in practice, the concept is largely discarded. Charles Marohn looks at why. (Strong Towns)

• You Can Do Better: Designer Bruce Mau takes self-pitying architects to task, arguing that if architecture is largely irrelevant to the great mass of the world’s population, it is because architects have chosen to be. (Architect Magazine)

• Growth Without Growth: In an excerpt from his new book, Bill Fulton suggests that it’s time for America’s cities to focus on prosperity, not population. (Planetizen)