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
  • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Can't believe that André Gorz's "The social ideology of the motorcar" isn't on here. It absolutely slaps at explaining why "car bad," regardless of how cars are developed/worked around.

    The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and nature were never intended for the people. Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car, like a villa by the sea, is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one. That is how in both conception and original purpose the car is a luxury good. And the essence of luxury is that it cannot be democratized. If everyone can have luxury, no one gets any advantages from it. On the contrary, everyone diddles, cheats, and frustrates everyone else, and is diddled, cheated, and frustrated in return.