Blair Lorenzo / Fox & The City

This past weekend at bookstore I came across something relatively new: a section labled "urbanism."

On the one hand, it's great to see urbanity recognized as a topic. For years, books about cities would be buried under architecture, social science, or cultural studies. /1

Jul 9, 2024 at 9:14pmWeb
Show threadBlair Lorenzo / Fox & The CityJul 9, 2024

At the same time, it's also notable what a genre hodgepodge these books are: history, design, architecture, etc. It makes sense: urbanism is cross-disciplinary!

But it makes me wonder if the people or the market will ever recognize urbanism as a worthy topic unto itself. /2

Show threadPaul LewisJul 10, 2024
@foxandcity Some of the larger stores in the old Borders chain, to my pleasant surprise, used to have an "Urban Studies" section (generally just 1-2 shelves). I think they put it with their "Sociology" section.