This selection (texts, images, videos) was shared in the Relational Cartographies class and it doesn’t reflect the long list of books and studies written on the subject.
Brasilia’s Monumental Axis
Brasilia’s Monumental Axis with walking paths illustrated
Sao Paulo, Favela de Paraisopolis, photo Tuca Vieira
Tijuana, Baja California and San Diego, California
Atlanta, Giorgia
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Hurricane Sandy, 2012
Textbooks:
Environmental Psychology by Paul A. Bell
Environmental Psychology by Robert Gifford
Books:
The Image of the city by Kevin Lynch
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
Wrestling with Moses by Anthony Flint
Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal
Robert Moses
Jane Jacobs
Links:
Did Robert Moses Ruin New York City?
[Legibility] RibbonFarm: Experiments in Refactored Perception by Venkatesh Rao
The Truth About Photographic Memory
Ten-Year Forecast by Kathi Vian
Videos:
More than Honey (00:14:20)
Automatic Google Car: Self-Driving Car on City Streets
Ai being tested by Tetsuro Matsuzawa, a primatologist at Kyoto University. Via
Relational Cartographies 