What's New

2023-02-10

Added book notes for Fighting traffic: the dawn of the motor age in the American city

2022-11-15

Added book notes for Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

2022-08-01

Added book notes for City: rediscovering the center

2021-09-07

Added book notes for The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

2021-04-08

Added book notes for Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit.

2018-12-12

Added book notes for Parking and the City.

2016-09-05

Added book notes for Where We Want to Live.

2016-05-17

Added book notes for Streetfight.

2015-07-10

Added file about Car-Free Lifestyle. Updated file about Mobility / Car Sharing.

2015-05-06

Updated file about Mobility / Car Sharing

2015-03-24

Added book notes for If Cars Could Talk

2014-12-18

Added book notes for Why I Walk.

2014-06-21

Added book notes for Dead End.

2014-06-06

Added book notes for Urban Street Design Guide.

2014-05-06

Added file about Transit Reform.

2014-01-20

Added book notes for Parking Reform Made Easy.

2013-12-14

Added book notes for Why We Drive: The Past, Present, and Future of Automobiles in America.

2013-09-20

Updated file about Car Sharing

2013-09-12

Added file about Stop the War on Pedestrians and Bicyclists.

2013-08-23

Added book notes for The End of the Suburbs.

2013-08-19

Added book notes for Charter of the New Urbanism (Second Edition).

2013-08-16

Added book notes for The Trap.

2013-07-26

Added book notes for The Great Inversion.

2013-01-05

Added page on Car Sharing

2011-05-26

Added book notes for Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier.

2010-12-16

Added book notes for Sprawl Kills.

2010-09-01

Added book notes for Waiting on a Train.

2010-06-02

Added book notes for Green Metropolis.

2010-02-15

Added book notes for My Kind of Transit.

2010-01-16

Added book notes for The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome.

2009-12-07

Added book notes for After the Car.

2009-10-31

Added book notes for The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside.

2009-07-08

I wrote an blog entry/letter, "It is time to fund transit," about funding public transit in Wisconsin.

2009-05-05

Added book notes for The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream.

2009-02-28

I wrote an blog entry/editorial, "We need a mobility plan, not a transportation plan," concerning the State of Wisconsin's long-range transportation plan.

2008-11-25

Added book notes for 1001 Buildings You Must See Before You Die: The World's Architectural Masterpieces.

2008-11-11

Added book notes for Who's Your City?.

2007-11-06

Added book notes for A Certain Somehwere.

2007-08-06

Added book notes for Cities.

2007-07-04

Added book notes for Streets for People.

2007-06-02

Added book notes for Ecotopia.

2007-03-19

Added book notes for The Culture Code.

2006-11-30

Added Videos Page.

2006-11-02

Added book notes for A Whole New Mind.

2006-09-04

Added book notes for Making Places Special.

2006-08-23

Added book notes for Life 2.0.

2006-08-16

Added book notes for The High Cost of Free Parking.

2006-05-29

Added book notes for Miami: City of the Future.

2006-04-21

Added book notes for Neon Metropolis.

2006-02-07

Added book notes for Emergence.

2006-02-06

Added book notes for The Strip and American Mania.

2006-01-16

Added book notes for A Better Place to Live.

2005-10-24

Added book notes for Get Urban!

2005-10-10

Added book notes for The Clustered World.

2005-10-05

Added book notes for Dark Age Ahead and Ideal Cities.

2005-09-13

Added book notes for Shadow Cities.

2005-09-12

Added book notes for Ecology of Fear.

2005-06-25

Added book notes for The Long Emergency.

2005-06-20

Added book notes for Global City Blues.

2005-06-17

Added book notes for City-Building in America and The City: A Global History.

2005-06-11

Added book notes for The Great Good Place.

2005-06-07

Prepared Kindred Sites, a list of Web sites that articulate similar ideas as my People Places site and have further useful information.

2005-06-04

Updates to News and Cases.

2005-06-01

Added the Pictures of the Moment section in Cases so as to collect them and provide a short write-up.

2005-05-26

Added the Views page; added Parking Cash-Out.

2005-05-24

Started the Cases page.

2005-05-20

Added book notes for The Wealth of Cities.

2005-05-18

Started the News page.

2005-05-17

Started the Facts file. Added the Planetizen feed. Added picture of the moment to index page.

2005-05-16

Added the first idea, The Transit Home. Routine copy editing and cleaning up of many of the books notes.

2005-05-15

Added About this information page to give an idea why this information was prepared and by whom.

2005-05-12

Book notes for The New Geography; preliminary work on Terms section.

2005-05-10

Preliminary work on Links section.

2005-04-27

Preparation of book notes for The Rise of the Creative Class and Crossing the Expendable Landscape.

2005-04-20

Preparation of book notes for Cities and the Creative Class, Suburban Nation, How Cities Work, Asphalt Nation, and Edge City.

2005-04-19

Preparation of book notes for Geography of Nowhere, Home from Nowhere, and The City in Mind.

2005-01-21

Start of books page, reading lists, and more reading to continue through winter, spring, and summer.

2004-11-26

Preliminary drafts of information and reading.