the built environment
description: the human-made spaces in which people live, work, and interact, including buildings, parks, and transportation systems.
225 results
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile
by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words
ways there’s no bigger victor in American history than cars, especially when one considers how completely they have shaped the economy, pop culture, politics, the built environment, the natural landscape, and even the climate. That’s why we at The War on Cars believe there’s an alternate history of cars that
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on their own, that can become their place,” said Alexandra Lange, an architecture and design critic whose book The Design of Childhood looks at how the built environment influences kids’ development and independence. Lange believes that despite the negative stereotypes of overprotective “helicopter parents,” Americans who are uncomfortable letting their children wander independently
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
by Megan Kimble · 2 Apr 2024 · 430pp · 117,211 words
. Bars were no good; people wanted to bring their kids. The closest park felt too far. A restaurant was loud and expensive. “I realized that the built environment profoundly impacts our entire lives, the relationships we have with our neighbors, how we feel when we move around,” he says. He started organizing street
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it with a city street and using the surplus land for housing, bike lanes, and sidewalks. Beth loved it. “It’s hard to look at the built environment and say, it should be totally different and this is how we’re going to get ourselves there.” The project didn’t get funded the
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. And once a highway is built, it is almost impossible to imagine it gone. For most of us, highways simply are—the essential shape of the built environment, never to be unbuilt. But cities have always been layered places, colonized and disputed and reclaimed. It’s all just construction. After Union Street opened
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, sometimes by pasting tiny pieces of paper over lot lines, drawing new buildings, and updating descriptions in small slanted capital letters, creating a palimpsest of the built environment. When the Interregional Highway was constructed through Austin, it swung west as it crossed the Colorado River, cutting across a residential neighborhood before joining East
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vehicles offer a false promise—that we can all keep driving as much as we want and still reduce carbon emissions. Electric vehicles fit into the built environment we already have, and so they seem like an easy fix—yet another consumer product that will save the planet. But unlike lightbulbs or toilet
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of the outcomes I’m seeking?’ When that day comes, I will show up and say, let’s do something different.” Despite its seeming permanence, the built environment can change quickly—much more quickly than we might imagine. * * * — On a gorgeous spring morning in April 2023—almost exactly three years after the Texas
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
to refurbish one station.”6 Dubai made use of the most advanced forms of engineering and architecture to achieve visually stunning, gravity-defying feats in the built environment. It was unapologetic in its ostentatious celebration of wealth unburdened by hang-ups about inequality. How did they do it? Authoritarianism was part of the
A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
by Simon Jenkins · 7 Nov 2024 · 364pp · 94,801 words
ever greater control over public policy. War required it, and so would the need to recover from war. That need embraced an absolute authority over the built environment. The destruction wreaked by the Second World War presented a landscape of ruins across Europe from which all appreciation of the past lost validity. Governments
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in architecture schools before the war. They had produced quantities of hospitals, government offices, universities, new towns and housing estates almost all at public expense. The built environment we see round us was, at least in most urban centres, dominated by their work, though I rarely find people who can cite favourite buildings
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the last gasp of a policy that had for half a century wreaked havoc across Britain’s Victorian cities. This concept of architectural fusion, of the built environment as a marriage of past and future, was reflected in new visions of the city. Two urbanists, America’s Edward Glaeser and Canada’s Richard
New Localism and Regeneration Management
by Jon Coaffee · 1 Mar 2005
Anthony B.L. Cheung Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong John G. Corcoran Economist, School of the Built Environment, Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick, Eire Joan Corkery European Centre for Development, Maastricht, The Netherlands Dr Carolyn Currie School of Finance and Economics, University of
A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies
by Matt Simon · 24 Jun 2022 · 254pp · 82,981 words
is, since we don’t rely on urban green spaces for food or anything. Urban folk do, however, rely on them to make life bearable. The built environment—roads, sidewalks, structures—absorbs the sun’s energy during the day and slowly releases it at night. Consequently, urban areas can be 20 degrees Fahrenheit
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. 2019. “Multiyear Water Quality Performance and Mass Accumulation of PCBs, Mercury, Methylmercury, Copper, and Microplastics in a Bioretention Rain Garden.” Journal of Sustainable Water in the Built Environment 5 (4). https://doi.org/10.1061/JSWBAY.0000883; Rochman, Chelsea M., Keenan Munno, Carolynn Box, Anna Cummins, Xia Zhu, and Rebecca Sutton. 2021. “Think
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
by Robert D. Putnam · 10 Mar 2015 · 459pp · 123,220 words
,” Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 52 (August 22, 2003): 785–88; Penny Gordon-Larsen, Melissa C. Nelson, Phil Page, and Barry M. Popkin, “Inequality in the Built Environment Underlies Key Health Disparities in Physical Activity and Obesity,” Pediatrics 117 (February 2006): 417–24; Billie Giles-Corti and Robert J. Donovan, “Relative Influences of
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World
by Michael Marmot · 9 Sep 2015 · 414pp · 119,116 words
a role. Either way, making access to green space a priority for urban environments should be a priority. In Britain the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment estimates that if the budget for new road building were diverted, it could provide for 1,000 new urban parks at an initial capital cost
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. 2008; 372(9650): 1655–60. 39Bird D. Government advisors demand urgent shift in public investment to green England’s cities. CABE (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment), 2009. 40Sloman L, Cavill N, Cope A, Muller L, Kennedy A. Analysis and Synthesis of Evidence on the Effects of Investment in Six Cycling Towns
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Let them eat junk: how capitalism creates hunger and obesity
by Robert Albritton · 31 Mar 2009 · 273pp · 93,419 words
general space is homogenized by capital when its diversity gets in the way of capital mobility, when mass production and consumption require standardization, and when the built environment is standardized by capitalist commercialization and profit fixation. The material, qualitative or use-value characteristics of space can be quite resistant to being totally subsumed
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its diversity, and forcing it into standardized boxes or forcing it to produce at a faster pace than its own rhythms can be ecologically destructive. The built environment tends to be homogenized when corporations of ever-increasing size construct it such that industrial parks, strip malls, cities and suburbs everywhere become increasingly indistinguishable
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referring to the ever-rarer places of qualitative diversity and uniqueness, which tourists flock to precisely because of the rarity of the qualitatively beautiful in the built environment of recent capitalism. Similarly nature has been so sourced for raw materials and so polluted, or in short so stressed by every increasing rate of
Policing the Open Road
by Sarah A. Seo
horse?” But Americans did not think of the twentieth century as the Automotive Age for nothing. Cars radically changed daily lives and aspirations, culture and the built environment, and people’s relationships with each other and their communities. Even more profoundly, the automobile came to represent individual solitude and freedom. The poet Stephen
Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
by Cecilia Heyes · 15 Apr 2018
Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
by Richard Heinberg and James Howard (frw) Kunstler · 1 Sep 2007 · 235pp · 65,885 words
When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · 4 May 2015 · 306pp · 85,836 words
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
by Matthew B. Crawford · 29 Mar 2015 · 351pp · 100,791 words
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From the Future
by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway · 30 Jun 2014 · 105pp · 18,832 words
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
by Kristin Ross · 6 Apr 2015 · 175pp · 52,122 words
Mobility: A New Urban Design and Transport Planning Philosophy for a Sustainable Future
by John Whitelegg · 1 Sep 2015 · 224pp · 69,494 words
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
by Eric Kaufmann · 24 Oct 2018 · 691pp · 203,236 words
Life as a Passenger: How Driverless Cars Will Change the World
by David Kerrigan · 18 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 80,835 words
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott · 21 Aug 2017 · 349pp · 86,224 words
Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made
by Vaclav Smil · 2 Mar 2021 · 1,324pp · 159,290 words
The Warhol Economy
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 15 Jan 2020 · 320pp · 90,115 words
Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin · 21 Jun 2023 · 248pp · 73,689 words
This Chair Rocks: A Manifiesto Against Ageism
by Ashton Applewhite · 10 Feb 2016 · 312pp · 84,421 words
The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris
by Mark Honigsbaum · 8 Apr 2019 · 529pp · 150,263 words
One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility
by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness · 28 Mar 2010 · 532pp · 155,470 words
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
by William Quinn and John D. Turner · 5 Aug 2020 · 297pp · 108,353 words
The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
by Paul Roberts · 1 Sep 2014 · 324pp · 92,805 words
Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton · 30 Apr 2014 · 426pp · 118,913 words
Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education
by Mike Rose · 17 Sep 2012 · 225pp · 55,458 words
Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice
by Molly Scott Cato · 16 Dec 2008
Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
by Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato · 31 Jul 2016 · 370pp · 102,823 words
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
by Tim Harford · 3 Oct 2016 · 349pp · 95,972 words
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink · 1 Jan 2008 · 204pp · 54,395 words
Building Microservices
by Sam Newman · 25 Dec 2014 · 540pp · 103,101 words
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by Merlin Sheldrake · 11 May 2020
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by Jeremy Rifkin · 31 Mar 2014 · 565pp · 151,129 words
Data Action: Using Data for Public Good
by Sarah Williams · 14 Sep 2020
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
by Ashley Shew · 18 Sep 2023 · 154pp · 43,956 words
The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
by Peter Lunenfeld · 31 Mar 2011 · 239pp · 56,531 words
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
by Danny Dorling and Kirsten McClure · 18 May 2020 · 459pp · 138,689 words
The Transhumanist Reader
by Max More and Natasha Vita-More · 4 Mar 2013 · 798pp · 240,182 words
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
by Lierre Keith · 30 Apr 2009 · 321pp · 85,893 words
Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities
by Ray Oldenburg · 30 Nov 2001 · 215pp · 71,155 words
The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
by Ray Oldenburg · 17 Aug 1999
What Technology Wants
by Kevin Kelly · 14 Jul 2010 · 476pp · 132,042 words
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
by Mark Hertsgaard · 15 Jan 2011 · 326pp · 48,727 words
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
by Adam Greenfield · 29 May 2017 · 410pp · 119,823 words
The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-And How We Can Make It Better
by Annie Leonard · 22 Feb 2011 · 538pp · 138,544 words
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
by Eric Klinenberg · 10 Sep 2018 · 281pp · 83,505 words
Culture works: the political economy of culture
by Richard Maxwell · 15 Jan 2001 · 268pp · 112,708 words
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov · 15 Nov 2013 · 606pp · 157,120 words
The City: A Global History
by Joel Kotkin · 1 Jan 2005
The Techno-Human Condition
by Braden R. Allenby and Daniel R. Sarewitz · 15 Feb 2011
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
by Fred Pearce · 30 Sep 2009 · 407pp · 121,458 words
Green Interior Design
by Lori Dennis · 14 Aug 2020
The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport: Second Edition
by David Levinson and Kevin Krizek · 17 Aug 2015 · 257pp · 64,285 words
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us)
by Tom Vanderbilt · 28 Jul 2008 · 512pp · 165,704 words
Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing
by Adam Greenfield · 14 Sep 2006 · 229pp · 68,426 words
The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters
by Diane Coyle · 15 Apr 2025 · 321pp · 112,477 words
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
by Natasha Dow Schüll · 19 Aug 2012
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
by Greta Thunberg · 14 Feb 2023 · 651pp · 162,060 words
This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World: A Practitioners' Handbook
by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence and Jakob Schneider · 12 Jan 2018 · 704pp · 182,312 words
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
by Frank Trentmann · 1 Dec 2015 · 1,213pp · 376,284 words
Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
by Dieter Helm · 7 Mar 2019 · 348pp · 102,438 words
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
by Tim Wu · 14 May 2016 · 515pp · 143,055 words
Explore Everything
by Bradley Garrett · 7 Oct 2013 · 273pp · 76,786 words
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by Jeff Speck · 13 Nov 2012 · 342pp · 86,256 words
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · 17 Sep 2024 · 588pp · 160,825 words
Home: Why Public Housing Is the Answer
by Eoin Ó Broin · 5 May 2019 · 301pp · 77,626 words
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
by David Sim · 19 Aug 2019 · 211pp · 55,075 words
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America
by Gabriel Winant · 23 Mar 2021 · 563pp · 136,190 words
Notes From an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back
by Mark O'Connell · 13 Apr 2020 · 213pp · 70,742 words
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by David Harvey · 2 Jan 1995 · 318pp · 85,824 words
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
by Charles Eisenstein · 11 Jul 2011 · 448pp · 142,946 words
Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
by Colin Ellard · 14 May 2015 · 313pp · 92,053 words
You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall
by Colin Ellard · 6 Jul 2009 · 293pp · 97,431 words
The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
by Joyce Appleby · 22 Dec 2009 · 540pp · 168,921 words
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (Inside Technology)
by Geoffrey C. Bowker · 24 Aug 2000
Suburban Nation
by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck · 14 Sep 2010 · 321pp · 85,267 words
Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
by Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett · 27 Aug 2018 · 230pp · 71,834 words
Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers
by Stephen Graham · 8 Nov 2016 · 519pp · 136,708 words
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
by James Bridle · 18 Jun 2018 · 301pp · 85,263 words
How Cycling Can Save the World
by Peter Walker · 3 Apr 2017 · 231pp · 69,673 words
The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells · 31 Aug 1996 · 843pp · 223,858 words
Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles
by Mohammed Abdul Qadeer · 10 Mar 2016
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells · 19 Feb 2019 · 343pp · 101,563 words
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson · 15 Nov 2016 · 322pp · 88,197 words
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
by Natasha Dow Schüll · 15 Jan 2012 · 632pp · 166,729 words
The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us
by Joel Kotkin · 11 Apr 2016 · 565pp · 122,605 words
EcoVillage at Ithaca Pioneering a Sustainable Culture (2005)
by Liz Walker · 20 May 2005
Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference
by David Halpern · 26 Aug 2015 · 387pp · 120,155 words
Engineering Security
by Peter Gutmann
Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
by Matthew B. Crawford · 8 Jun 2020 · 386pp · 113,709 words
Neurodiversity at Work: Drive Innovation, Performance and Productivity With a Neurodiverse Workforce
by Amanda Kirby and Theo Smith · 2 Aug 2021 · 424pp · 114,820 words
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
by Ross Douthat · 25 Feb 2020 · 324pp · 80,217 words
Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge)
by Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox · 22 Jun 2015 · 262pp · 73,439 words
The Fundamentals of Interior Design
by Dodsworth, Simon and Anderson, Stephen · 29 Jan 2015
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words
The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream
by Christopher B. Leinberger · 15 Nov 2008 · 222pp · 50,318 words
Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves
by Nicola Twilley · 24 Jun 2024 · 428pp · 125,388 words
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
by Richard Beck · 2 Sep 2024 · 715pp · 212,449 words
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
by Richard Sennett · 9 Apr 2018
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
by Henry Grabar · 8 May 2023 · 413pp · 115,274 words
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
by Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star · 25 Aug 2000 · 357pp · 125,142 words
Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
by Jared Sullivan · 15 Oct 2024 · 545pp · 147,673 words
Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
by Lizabeth Cohen · 30 Sep 2019
The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin · 9 Sep 2019 · 327pp · 84,627 words
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
by Sara C. Bronin · 30 Sep 2024 · 230pp · 74,949 words
Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by Louis Hyman · 3 Jan 2011
The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
by Daniel Yergin · 14 May 2011 · 1,373pp · 300,577 words
Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation
by Grace Blakeley · 9 Sep 2019 · 263pp · 80,594 words
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing
by Lisa Gansky · 14 Oct 2010 · 215pp · 55,212 words
The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America
by Jon C. Teaford · 1 Jan 2006 · 395pp · 115,753 words
City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age
by P. D. Smith · 19 Jun 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
by Charles Montgomery · 12 Nov 2013 · 432pp · 124,635 words
A Burglar's Guide to the City
by Geoff Manaugh · 17 Mar 2015 · 238pp · 75,994 words
A History of British Motorways
by G. Charlesworth · 1 Jan 1984
The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
by David Harvey · 1 Jan 2010 · 369pp · 94,588 words
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
by Benjamin H. Bratton · 19 Feb 2016 · 903pp · 235,753 words
Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan
by Lynne B. Sagalyn · 8 Sep 2016 · 1,797pp · 390,698 words
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
by Edward L. Glaeser · 1 Jan 2011 · 598pp · 140,612 words
The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton · 10 Dec 2008 · 159pp · 48,021 words
Invisible Women
by Caroline Criado Perez · 12 Mar 2019 · 480pp · 119,407 words
Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis
by Leo Hollis · 31 Mar 2013 · 385pp · 118,314 words
Platform Capitalism
by Nick Srnicek · 22 Dec 2016 · 116pp · 31,356 words
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
by David Harvey · 3 Apr 2012 · 206pp · 9,776 words
Cities: The First 6,000 Years
by Monica L. Smith · 31 Mar 2019 · 304pp · 85,291 words
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C. Scott · 8 Feb 1999 · 607pp · 185,487 words
Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community
by Karen T. Litfin · 16 Dec 2013 · 322pp · 89,523 words
City: Urbanism and Its End
by Douglas W. Rae · 15 Jan 2003 · 537pp · 200,923 words
Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design
by Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Steve Tiesdell and Taner Oc · 15 Feb 2010 · 1,233pp · 239,800 words
The Miracle Pill
by Peter Walker · 21 Jan 2021 · 372pp · 98,659 words
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane · 28 Feb 2017 · 346pp · 90,371 words
City 2.0: The Habitat of the Future and How to Get There
by Ted Books · 20 Feb 2013 · 83pp · 23,805 words
Reamde
by Neal Stephenson · 19 Sep 2011 · 1,318pp · 403,894 words
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
by Chris Bruntlett and Melissa Bruntlett · 28 Jun 2021 · 225pp · 70,590 words
Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
by Alain Bertaud · 9 Nov 2018 · 769pp · 169,096 words
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
by Jeff Goodell · 10 Jul 2023 · 347pp · 108,323 words
Vanishing New York
by Jeremiah Moss · 19 May 2017 · 479pp · 140,421 words
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back
by Guy Shrubsole · 1 May 2019 · 505pp · 133,661 words
The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain
by Brett Christophers · 6 Nov 2018
Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
by Andrew Ross · 25 Oct 2021 · 301pp · 90,276 words
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy (Bicycle)
by Elly Blue · 29 Nov 2014 · 221pp · 68,880 words
The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by Gretchen Bakke · 25 Jul 2016 · 433pp · 127,171 words
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
by Brian Goldstone · 25 Mar 2025 · 512pp · 153,059 words
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
by John Abramson · 15 Dec 2022 · 362pp · 97,473 words
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
by Alec Nevala-Lee · 1 Aug 2022 · 864pp · 222,565 words
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
by Brett Chistophers · 25 Apr 2023 · 404pp · 106,233 words
Urban Transport Without the Hot Air, Volume 1
by Steve Melia · 351pp · 91,133 words
On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways
by Christian Wolmar · 29 May 2005
Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain's Housing Emergency
by Vicky Spratt · 18 May 2022 · 371pp · 122,273 words
Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
by Parag Khanna · 18 Apr 2016 · 497pp · 144,283 words
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World
by Fareed Zakaria · 5 Oct 2020 · 289pp · 86,165 words
The Cohousing Handbook: Building a Place for Community
by Chris Scotthanson and Kelly Scotthanson · 1 Nov 2004 · 305pp · 73,935 words
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams · 1 Oct 2015 · 357pp · 95,986 words
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
by Sharon Zukin · 1 Dec 2009 · 415pp · 119,277 words
Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars
by Samuel I. Schwartz · 17 Aug 2015 · 340pp · 92,904 words
Aerotropolis
by John D. Kasarda and Greg Lindsay · 2 Jan 2009 · 603pp · 182,781 words
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley · 10 Jun 2013
Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century City
by Anna Minton · 24 Jun 2009 · 309pp · 96,434 words
Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products
by Leander Kahney · 14 Nov 2013 · 363pp · 94,139 words
The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work
by Richard Florida · 22 Apr 2010 · 265pp · 74,941 words
Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling
by Carlton Reid · 14 Jun 2017 · 309pp · 84,038 words
Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities
by Diana Leafe Christian · 1 Jan 2003
USA Travel Guide
by Lonely, Planet
Your Computer Is on Fire
by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip · 9 Mar 2021 · 661pp · 156,009 words
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 5 Oct 2015 · 424pp · 121,425 words
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
by Bill Gates · 16 Feb 2021 · 314pp · 75,678 words
Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
by Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson · 23 Mar 2011 · 512pp · 131,112 words
From Peoples into Nations
by John Connelly · 11 Nov 2019
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
by Robert Macfarlane · 1 May 2019 · 489pp · 136,195 words
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by Karen Hao · 19 May 2025 · 660pp · 179,531 words
Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
by Stefan Al · 11 Apr 2022 · 300pp · 81,293 words
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy
by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake · 4 Apr 2022 · 338pp · 85,566 words
The Terraformers
by Annalee Newitz · 404pp · 118,036 words
Where We Want to Live
by Ryan Gravel · 2 Feb 2016 · 259pp · 76,797 words
The Day the World Stops Shopping
by J. B. MacKinnon · 14 May 2021 · 368pp · 109,432 words
Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers
by Jason M. Barr · 13 May 2024 · 292pp · 107,998 words
Eastern USA
by Lonely Planet
Sweden
by Becky Ohlsen · 19 Jun 2009
Straphanger
by Taras Grescoe · 8 Sep 2011 · 428pp · 134,832 words
The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
by Leigh Gallagher · 26 Jun 2013 · 296pp · 76,284 words
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
by Joshua B. Freeman · 27 Feb 2018 · 538pp · 145,243 words
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
by Henry Petroski · 2 Jan 1995
Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen
by Peter Apps · 10 Nov 2022 · 279pp · 85,552 words
Abundance
by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson · 18 Mar 2025 · 227pp · 84,566 words
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
by Yoni Appelbaum · 17 Feb 2025 · 412pp · 115,534 words
Persian Gulf Command: A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq
by Ashley Jackson · 15 May 2018 · 714pp · 188,602 words
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