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Jeff Speck has written a great book called "Walkable City." I have nothing to do with city planning, but I found it super-interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/d...

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+1 for Walkable City! For everyone saying that the conclusions in the post are obvious, it apparently wasn't obvious enough that in the US, many cities are built for cars and not people.

Another good book is 'Happy City' although I liked Walkable City more.

https://www.amazon.com/Happy-City-Transforming-Through-Desig...

Speck has a somewhat contrarian take to urban design that's really fun, promoting things like street parking and 4-way stops.

He has a couple talks he gives, one of which he's given at TED.

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