I'd recommend both books written by the founder, Charles Marohn:
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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Those are very good recommendations. I do admire the way he has taken on the engineering profession and called them on their BS.
I used to follow them until i realized they were cherry picking data to make points. When I realized the 'suburb' they were using to point put that suburbs were all bankrupt or near was a rural town of a few thousand I realized I.couldn't trust them.
Don't get me wrong, there is good stuff there, but be careful not to believe everything you read.
I’m curious what town you are referring to?
I don't remember anymore. Something in southern MN, but it's was at least 3 years ago, I remember being disgusted that they would pull something so stupid and quit reading completely.