OnCities

Good StewartBrand overview : https://web.archive.org/web/20051207102416/http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/04/a_world_made_of.html

though the upbeat tone should be compared with some of the more negative takes like FallingApart, TheLongEmergency and the bad stuff OnFavelas, SlumPlanet.

It touches HernandoDeSoto and ShearingLayers too. I have a comment http://blahsploitation.blogspot.com/2005/04/tim-oreilly-on-stewart-brand-on-cities.html))

• Review of JoelKotkin's The City : http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edgeperspectives/2005/04/kotkinsthe_cit.html
  • Compare AttractiveHubs

Urban Theory

• ACityIsNotATree
• JaneJacobs
• ManuelCastells
• ScienceOfCities
• MathsAndCities
• HowCitiesEvolve
• CityProductivity
• ModellingCities
• http://www.ncl.ac.uk/guru/

Eco Thinking

• GreenCities
• OrganicArchitecture
• TransitionTowns
• CitiesVsPlants

City Culture

• HighDensityLiving
  • PlanetOfSlums / OnFavelas
• PostSpectacularCity
• InvisibleCities / InvisibleVillages
• PoliticsOfCities
• UrbanTapestries
• FallingApart

City Economies

• TheCityAsInformationSystem
• CharterCities / StartupCities
• MarketsAndCities
• AeroTropolis
• ClassWarBetweenCityAndCountry

City Dynamics

• CovidAndUrbanisation
• RuinsAndRenewal

Information Cities

• TheCityAsInformationSystem
• InformationCity
• CityInformationSystem

Urban Stories

• Brasilia
• EdgeCity
• EphemeralCity
• FeralCities
• FallingApart
• NewUrbanism
• CityRepair
• FatCity
• UrbanUnderground
• Ecstacity
• BlogosphereAsACity
• Berlin
• TheFutureOfTheCity
• SuperStarCities

• UtopianCities
• StreetTheatreArchitecture
• ArchitectureAtWar
• SimCity
• CongestionCharging

• Defence of cities and modernity : http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2004/01/23/feudalismandthefutureof_environmentalism.php

• NewYork's ChinaTown shifting : http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/56368

• http://io9.com/5362912/the-city-is-a-battlesuit-for-surviving-the-future

• LongTailOfCities

Compare :

• OnSuburbia