Post #1754100
2026-04-27 09:55 UTC
@ipsquiggle
Christopher Alexander, "A Pattern Language" (1977).
Jane Jacobs, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" (1961)
James Howard Kunstler, "The Geography of Nowhere" (1993)
Jeff Speck, "Walkable City" (2012)
David Owen, "Green Metropolis" (2009), "The Conundrum" (2012)
Michael Pollan, "Second Nature" (1991), "A Place of My Own" (1997)
John Sherwin Crosby, "The Orthocratic State" (1915)
Henry George, "Progress and Poverty" (1879)
Lewis Mumford, "The City in History" (1972)
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@ipsquiggle@sunny.garden 2026-05-02 23:21
@gcvrsa@mastodon.social What a list haha! Thank you! The Alexander and Jacobs books have been recommended to me a few times each, is there one other book in this list you'd recommend "if you were forced to choose"?