Reading suggestions

Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of Great American Cities

  • The uses of sidewalks: contact
  • The uses of sidewalks: assimilating children
  • The uses of neighborhood parks
  • The uses of city neighborhoods
  • The need for primary mixed uses
  • The need for small blocks
  • The need for aged buildings
  • The need for concentration
  • Some myths about diversity
  • The self-destruction of diversity
  • The curse of border vacuums
  • Unslumming and slumming
  • Gradual money and cataclysmic money
  • Subsidizing dwellings
  • Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles
  • Visual order: its limitations and possibilities
  • Salvaging projects
  • Governing and planning districts
  • The kind of problem a city is

Jeff Speck’s Walkable City

  • Step 1: Put cars in their place
  • Step 2: Mix the uses
  • Step 3: Get the parking right
  • Step 4: Let transit work
  • Step 5: Protect the pedestrian
  • Step 6: Welcome bikes
  • Step 7: Shape the spaces
  • Step 8: Plant trees
  • Step 9: Make friendly and unique faces
  • Step 10: Pick your winners

Chuck Marohn’s Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

  • Whose mistakes do we forgive?
  • Understanding roads?
  • Great streets
  • Traffic congestion
  • Intersections and traffic flow
  • Transportation finance
  • Public transit
  • Transportation technology and fads
  • The routine traffic stop
  • Reforming transportation practices
  • My confession

Ross Chapin’s Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small-scale Community in a Large-scale World

Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett’s Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality

Robert Caro’s Power Broker

  • Changing
  • One mile (afterword)
  • Rumors and the report of rumors