New Cities YCombinator Research readings

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


Mumford, Lewis. The City in History (1961; based on The Culture of Cities, 1938). Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/City-History-Origins-Transformations-Prospects/dp/0156180359. Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_in_History.

see also: Mumford, "What is a City?" article in Architectural Record, 1937. http://www.contemporaryurbananthropology.com/pdfs/Mumford,%20What%20is%20a%20City_.pdf


Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. (1961).

ch.1-2: http://www.miguelangelmartinez.net/IMG/pdf/1961_Jacobs_TheUsesofSidewalksby_chapter.pdf


Townsend, Anthony M. "Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia." (2014) 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 suggested by Fedor Novikov