My midlife has become preoccupied with walkable cities, and moving explicitly away from car-centric design. Below are resources on the reasoning behind this, and examples of the difference in lifestyle that designing for people (not cars) can provide.
Strong Towns
It started with a book, and is now so much more. Check it out at strongtowns.org.
Not Just Bikes
A Canadian native-turned Northern European. Highlights the amazing quality of life that human centric design provides.
City Nerd
Armed with a dry with and numerous spreadhseets, City Nerd highlights examples and violations of human-centric design mostly in the US.
City Beautiful
Examples of beautiful and functional cities and urban design.
The Truth about American Cities
A collaboration between Not Just Bikes and Strong Towns, this 6-part series examines the core issues behind suburbia's insolvency and scalability limitations, and offers some paths forward.
Tactical Urbanism
A great resource on how to affect smal-scale change quickly in your community.
Better Living through Gaming
Coming soon, how a strategy game, a confession from a recovering engineer and a mid-life crisis led to a profound lifestyle change.
Close.City
An amazing tool that shows walkable/transit proximity to important urban amenities. Explore to the right, or visit https://close.city.