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== Posts from YC Research ==

Background: YCombinator Research, New Cities project announcement, 27 June 2016 [https://cities.ycr.org/blog/2016/07/27/new-cities https://cities.ycr.org/blog/2016/07/27/new-cities].
Background: YCombinator Research, New Cities project announcement, 27 June 2016 [https://cities.ycr.org/blog/2016/07/27/new-cities https://cities.ycr.org/blog/2016/07/27/new-cities].


== Posts about YCR New Cities Project ==
   

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'''Alexander, Christopher. ''A city is not a tree''.&nbsp;(1965).'''<br/> [http://www.rudi.net/pages/8755 full text].

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'''Mumford, Lewis. ''The City in History''&nbsp;'''(1961; based on ''The Culture of Cities,'' 1938). [https://www.amazon.com/City-History-Origins-Transformations-Prospects/dp/0156180359 Amazon];&nbsp;[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_in_History Wikipedia].<br/> &nbsp;&nbsp;see also: Mumford, "[http://www.contemporaryurbananthropology.com/pdfs/Mumford,%20What%20is%20a%20City_.pdf What is a City?]" article in ''Architectural Record'', 1937.

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'''Jacobs, Jane. ''The Death and Life of Great American Cities''.&nbsp;(1961).'''<br/> [http://www.miguelangelmartinez.net/IMG/pdf/1961_Jacobs_TheUsesofSidewalksby_chapter.pdf ch.1-2 PDF].

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'''Townsend, Anthony M. [https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Cities-Civic-Hackers-Utopia/dp/0393349780/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477768303&sr=8-1&keywords=townsend+smart+city Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia].&nbsp;(2014) ''' suggested by Fedor Novikov


== Helpful research to understand YCR New Cities Project ==
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* '''Alexander, Christopher. ''[http://www.rudi.net/pages/8755 A city is not a tree]''. (1965).'''
* '''Mumford, Lewis. ''[https://www.amazon.com/City-History-Origins-Transformations-Prospects/dp/0156180359The City in History]'' '''(1961; based on ''The Culture of Cities,'' 1938). (Also see [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_in_History Wikipedia])
* '''Mumford, Lewis. ''[http://www.contemporaryurbananthropology.com/pdfs/Mumford,%20What%20is%20a%20City_.pdf What is a City?]'' '''' article in ''Architectural Record'', 1937.
* '''Jacobs, Jane. ''[http://www.miguelangelmartinez.net/IMG/pdf/1961_Jacobs_TheUsesofSidewalksby_chapter.pdf The Death and Life of Great American Cities]''. (1961).'''
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* '''Townsend, Anthony M. [https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Cities-Civic-Hackers-Utopia/dp/0393349780/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477768303&sr=8-1&keywords=townsend+smart+city Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia]. (2014)'''
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