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- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- Connexions Library: Transportation Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on transportation.
- Dark Age Ahead
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A dark age is a culture's dead end. Jacobs argues that our society is facing the coming of a dark age.
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Jacobs' iconoclastic and brilliant observations on why cities work, and why they don't.
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Exploring Your Neighbourhood
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
A guide for children to learn more about their neighbourhoods.
- The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Stromberg provides a historical overview of how jaywalking was pushed to become a crime by automotive companies in order to normalize the reign of automobiles over pedestrians in the streets.
- Gute Argumente: Verkehr
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativen.
- Porter's corporate interests can't be allowed to trump public health
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
We are concerned that it will be the children who live, study and play less than 300 metres from the current airport in the high-rises, the Waterfront school, Little Norway Park, the daycare and community centre who will be most affected by the addition of jets. Consider that landings and takeoffs generate the highest emissions and that peak airport periods coincide with times children walk to and from school.
- Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
Better Living with Less Traffic
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Cars destroy the environment; people should embrace alternative modes of transportation like bycycling and walking to make urban areas safer and enviromentally sound.
- The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
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