[DoreenMichele]

I bought some book that was a bunch of excerpts from classic urban planning works. I bought a book called "Seeing like the state." I bought a book about the Clemente Course in Humanities (there is a website for this these days).

I no doubt bought other stuff. I also enjoyed "How buildings learn" but I don't think I bought it that day.

I run r/CitizenPlanners and there are some links there to videos and what not.

[retsibsi]

For anyone interested, Scott Alexander wrote a longish review of Seeing Like A State: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-lik...

Personally I found the book a bit long and repetitive: although the examples were varied, each was used to restate the same basic point. But that may be my own problem. After all, if you're trying to support a generalisation using case studies, it's not enough to breeze through one or two and assure the reader that others exist; you need to go into detail about as many as you reasonably can.