Ultimate Strong Towns Reading List Public
Created by CuriousCurrawong
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Strong Towns by Charles L. Marohn Jr.
5 stars
Strong Towns: A Bottom Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward thinking ideas that breaks with …
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Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4 stars
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2012, by Random …
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The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
4 stars
Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas …
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The death and life of great American cities by Jane Jacobs
5 stars
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death …
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Alienated America by Timothy P. Carney
Respected conservative journalist and commentator Timothy P. Carney continues the conversation begun with Hillbilly Elegy and the classic Bowling Alone …
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Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild, Arlie Russell Hochschild
4 stars
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her …
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American Nations by Colin Woodard
4 stars
According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its …
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations by Jane Jacobs
4 stars
In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. …
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Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)
4 stars
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or …
