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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.

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Strong Towns
It started with a book, and is now so much more.  Check it out  at strongtowns.org.

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Not Just Bikes
A Canadian native-turned Northern European.  Highlights the amazing quality of life that human centric design provides.

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City Nerd
Armed with a dry with and numerous spreadhseets, City Nerd highlights examples and violations of human-centric design mostly in the US.

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City Beautiful
Examples of beautiful and functional cities and urban design.

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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.

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Tactical Urbanism
A great resource on how to affect smal-scale change quickly in your community.

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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.

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Close.City
An amazing tool that shows walkable/transit proximity to important urban amenities.  Explore to the right, or visit https://close.city.

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