2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American urban economist — Harvard — author of Triumph of the City — the leading academic advocate for urban density as the solution to housing costs, economic development, and environmental sustainability.
Robert Caro's 1974 biography of Robert Moses — the unelected New York City parks commissioner who shaped the city's physical form through 44 years of power — Pulitzer Prize — the greatest American political biography and one of the greatest works of American nonfiction.