Writings/Websites
A list of some of our favorite, pedagogically relevant writings, presentations and websites…..
Zoning Atlas from Desegregate Connecticut
Nine keys to safe downtown streets by Jeff Speck
Learning from Manhattan Some terrific urban lessons
Design Observer A great article about choosing a color palette in design
The Gehl Institute is about the study of public life
Hostiledesign.org keeps track of “designs against humanity”
Center for Active Design: the science of urban design
Cityfixer short articles fromThe Atlantic‘s CityLab
TODresources Resources in support of Transit Oriented Development
Public Square CNU’s journal, edited by Rob Steuteville
Naked Philly a blog that tracts small scale change in Philadelphia
West North blog urban insights by Payton Chung
James Dougherty’s Blog on “Towncrafting”
Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris on Addressing Informality in Urban Design Pedagogy
Ann Forsyth’s Collection of New Towns
Anne Whiston Spirn’s Writings and Photography
Spiro Kostof’s Amazing Lectures on Urban Form
Mike Batty on Spatial Complexity and Smart Cities
Per Square Mile, the world’s population, concentrated
Streetsblog is all about liveable streets
Build a Better Burb (everything you wanted to know about retrofitting Long Island)
Think.Urban: Better Design through Applied Research
CDC’s Healthy Community Design Initiative
Laurence Aurbach’s pedshet.net (includes many useful urban design-related analyses)
Besim Hakim on generative coding, historic city rules, and all things pertaining to Islamic cities
Dan Parolek on “Missing Middle Housing”
Peter Marcuse on the paradoxes of public space
The United Watershed States of America
What Tech Hasn’t Learned from Urban Planning
Made for Walking: Density and Urban Form, excerpt from Julie Campoli
What is Sustainable Urbanism? by Michael Mehaffy
Sustainable City Year Program, University of Oregon
Theory and Practice of New Urbanism, University of Miami
Design Studio for Social Intervention
Teaching History by Searching for Emics and Etics, Besim Hakim
A Model Curriculum To Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century European Built Environment, The European School of Urbanism and Architecture