A new book accounts for ways major infrastructure projects bust their budgets and make mincemeat of their schedules; another predicts demographic upheaval due to climate change.
A bumper crop of books related to California urbanism came out during the pandemic; Josh Stephens reviews titles about the Central Valley, San Diego history, Los Angeles pop culture, and more.
Leslie Kern's new book Feminist City will likely ring familiar with women planners -- and provide male planners crucial insights for making cities more welcoming and equitable for everyone.
In his new book, Eric Klinenberg can't quite decide whether social infrastructure is physical and tangible or whether it's something squishier. >>read more
A few years back, Bruegmann wrote Sprawl: A Compact History, an exaltation of low-density growth. It called for cities to double-down on all the conventions and mistakes of the previous 50 years. It was a disturbingly anachronistic, but it was provocative, and it was passionate.
It seems that these days there's still plenty of in urbanist literature, but, for better or worse, provocation is getting harder to come by.
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