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.

   

Alexander, Christopher. A city is not a tree. (1965).
full text.

Mumford, Lewis. The City in History (1961; based on The Culture of Cities, 1938). Amazon; Wikipedia.
  see also: Mumford, "What is a City?" article in Architectural Record, 1937.

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. (1961).
ch.1-2 PDF.

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

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