planning diaries(online)
re:vintage resources
The more I work in planning, the more I think about how time is a flat circle and ideas that are considered progressive and exciting have been done many times before. Although, there have been a lot of ideas that have been implemented in the past that get in the way of designing environments that interface well together and are true to the way that is it used /cough cough tower and park/. But anyway, here's my collection of mostly free "vintage" resources and the start of a few passion projects, including the tour de sk8, and hopefully a future skate wax audit tool kit or the likes.
videos!
Lewis Mumford's video series with the NFB
City Centre and Pedestrians(1974)
William Holly Whyte!
VIDEO video playlist: important skate videos for urban planners
VIDEO reading list
The following reading list occurs in no particular order and largely consists of books and essays.
The Visual and Spacial Structure of Landscapes by Tadahiko Higuchi
The Shape of the City by John Sewell
Environmental Interaction by Peter Canter, Peter Stringer et. al
The Tenant Class by Ricardo Tranjan
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Dark Age Ahead by Jane Jacobs
The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre
Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century: Readings on the Philosophy and Practice of the New Environmentalism edited by George Sessions
Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich (an all time personal favourite)
Shift Change by Stephen Dale
Messy Cities:Why We Can't Plan Everything edited by John Lorinc, Dylan Reid, Zahra Ebrahim, Leslie Woo
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar
The following list is just for myself, so I can keep up with other books I'm looking forward to reading/collecting.
Citizen, But Without Permission: Urban History of Skateboard Equipment, Rituals, & Terrain by Zach Moldof
After the Planners by Robert Goodman
Life Between Buildings by Jan Gehl
How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier
Going Shopping by Ann Satterthwaite
What Time is this Place? by Kevin Lynch
Humanscapes by Stephen and Rachel Kaplan
Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William H. Whyte
Housing, Micropolitics, and Pedagogies: Designing and practicing collectivity by Paul-Antoine Lucas, Bui Quy Son
A Citizen's Guide to City Politics by John Lorimer
documents/plans/policy sets
1957 Ville Marie Montreal Master Plan
Ottawa Skatepark Association Skate Park Standards
other projects?
tybg!!
