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Sean Hertel Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Consulting planner helping plan & build around transit. Speak, write & facilitate. Teach planning @yorkUEUC @envwaterloo & @TMUsurp. Harrow-Windsor-Detroit son.

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Book Cover for: Perfect City: An Urban Fixer's Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis, Joe Berridge

Perfect City: An Urban Fixer's Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis

Joe Berridge
Sean HertelSean Hertel

@donnelly_b “Perfect City” by @joe_berridge provides good insights into this. A book I highly recommend for city-builders and urban thinkers everywhere. Preview: “Jane’s ideas don’t scale.”

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Book Cover for: Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Declineof America's Man-Made Landscape, James Howard Kunstler

Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Declineof America's Man-Made Landscape

James Howard Kunstler
Sean HertelSean Hertel

@Fleischmarket @TO_Resident Think James Howard Kunstler, in his seminal work The Geography of Nowhere, said something like “People love Disney World but forget why when then go home to suburban hell.”

Paperback, 1994

$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Far Side, Gary Larson

The Far Side

Gary Larson
Sean HertelSean Hertel

We’re all this guy, at one time or another (The Far Side, Gary Larson). https://t.co/ohj57IDdML

Paperback, 1982

$16.99Member price:$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy, Charlotte Van Den Broeck

Bold Ventures: Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy

Charlotte Van Den Broeck
Sean HertelSean Hertel

“Mediocrity is worse than failure.” - Charlotte Van den Broeck, from her book “Bold Ventures”.

Hardcover, 2022

$27.99Member price:$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book