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Future Cities

Urban design for human and ecological thriving — the cities we need to build and the ones we need to transform.

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Books
Book

The Death and Life of Great American Cities — Jane Jacobs

The book that saved cities from urban planners. Still the most important critique of top-down city design.

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People
Person

Jane Jacobs

Self-trained urbanist who fought Robert Moses to a standstill over Lower Manhattan in the 1960s. The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) made the case for short blocks, mixed use, and eyes on the street — and rewrote planning.

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Tools & media
Media

Strong Towns

Building financially resilient communities through incremental, human-scale development.

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Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. — Jane Jacobs — The Death and Life of Great American Cities