City sources

Sources for city design, urban planning, and related topics

Articles

1. The New Urbanism:

Home from Nowhere --a proposal to improve urban life through the new use of traditional city forms by James Howard Kunstler (from the Atlantic Monthly)

A Good Place to Live --a community, Seaside Florida, that has been structured by the new traditionalism (from the Atlantic Monthly)

A Critique of Neotraditionalism-- says the New Urbanism is based on flawed assumptions.

2. Edge Cities and urban sprawl

Joel Garreau's book "Edge City" explores the growth of suburban and ex-urban "cities". (See below) An early article on the same subject is online: How Business is reshaping America (from the Atlantic Monthly)

"METROPOLIS UNBOUND The Sprawling American City and the Search for Alternatives" by Robert Geddes, (from The American Prospect)

3. Other topics

What Main Street can learn from the Mall discusses how design principles used by commercial developers can be applied to city planning (from the Atlantic Monthly)

Analysis, and related material

1. The New Urbanism:

New Urbanism (Lawrence University, WI)

Machine Space Are cities designed for people or cars?

2. Edge Cities

Edge City site at Maryland's State Archives with annotated slides from an Edge City lecture by Joel Garreau

An article by Garreau on Identifying an Edge City

Urban Sprawl (with links to good analysis)

Urban Sprawl in Northeastern Ohio

Beyond Urban Sprawl in California

Suburbia and Edge Cities (well-developed undergraduate thesis)

The Owings Mills (Maryland) project: a plan for a sustainable Edge City