Disclaimer: I don't know shit about all this, but I think it would be a good idea to collectively do this post and pin it until we have community wikis. Most comments in any of these sources are copied from the users who recomended it, see the comments or make a new post to discuss any content


Intro


Books and Essays


Audiovisuals

Documentaries:

YouTube channels:

  • donoteat - My first encounter with all this. Too long videos imo.
  • Stupid City - Shorter, cool videos.
  • The Armchair Urbanist
  • City Beautiful - Lib but okayish to lure libs I suppose.
  • Cheddar's playlist on urban desing
  • bigmoodenergy - Videos about the history of american transit. She’s done videos about streetcars, metros, and funicular trains so far and I believe she’s working on another in the series currently.
  • Unfinished London playlist - Some cool videos there.
  • Climate Town
  • Tom Scott's trains videos - He has a lot of cool train videos.
  • BicycleDutch - Cycling in the Netherlands and bike infrastructure in general.
  • Not just bikes - Somewhat similar channel to BicycleDutch but with a wider scope, focusing a bit more on urban planning in general. It offers the perspective of a Canadian who moved to the Netherlands (and stans it hard), and has some nice videos on their bike culture/infrastructure and how it didn’t just magically happen.
  • Help

Podcasts:


Blogs / Sites

Sites filled with libs but good to steal posts from:

  • r/urbanism
  • r/urbanplanning
  • r/trains
  • r/McMansionHell

  • RNAi [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    The WellThere'sYourProblem is more about engineering in general, but yeah.

    • mine [she/her,comrade/them]
      ·
      4 years ago

      their episode on traffic engineering is legendary and they consistently discuss topics absolutely relevant to urbanism and planning in general. Plus they talk about trains almost every episode. Train good.

      • RNAi [he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        edit-2
        4 years ago

        ooh, I thought that episode was from donoteat alone, and yeah, train good.

        • mine [she/her,comrade/them]
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          edit-2
          4 years ago

          just looked through my reading list, I haven't read these yet but maybe someone can vouch if these are any good or not or not on-topic enough (the second is collection of essays by Harvey, so prolly OK):

          Dense + Green

          Spaces of Capital

          • RNAi [he/him]
            hexagon
            ·
            4 years ago

            Dense and Green sounds like greenwashing and nothing else.