Title: Atomic Habits Author: James Clear Year Published: 2018 Introduction changes that seem small and unimportant at first will compound into remarkable results if you’re willing to stick with them for years. We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits.
The Fundamentals 1. The Surprising Power of Atomic Habits Uses the example of how Brailsford’s team transformed the success of British Cycling by making small 1% improvements in overlooked areas of their cycling training to improve the performance of the team...
Design with Nature
Author: McHarg Summary: A canonical text that reshaped design and planning disciplines about a concern for the environment and nature. This is about considering nature and man as complementary: a practice of ecological design that sees nature as a relative value system (as offering opportunities and limitations for human activities) that can inform the optimal location of human activities. Development should seek to preserve and enhance the characteristics of site in which it takes place through the built environment, rather than obliterate them, in designing with nature....
Happy City
Title: Happy City Author: Charles Montgomery Summary: A manifesto for healthy, walkable, mixed land use, and medium density developments Year Published: 2013
Transforming our lives through urban design
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WiQUzOnA5w
1. The Mayor of Happy “We might not be able to fix the economy. We might not be able to make everyone as rich as Americans. But we can design the city to give people dignity, to make them ‘feel’ rich....
