Reddit reviews The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series)
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Kevin Lynch's Image of the City
I highly suggest purchasing resource books on urban design, urban planning, and city structure. I will list some for you. I like to keep the aid of resource books in my personal library collection, and I am finding that urban planning resource books are helping me greatly in my world-building process.
I highly suggest looking into the life work of urban planner and MIT lecturer Kevin A. Lynch. He studied how urban environments are heavily shaped and influenced by fundamental human values and perceptions. Cities reflected directly those whom lived within them according to Lynch.
Here is a list of books as well as a link to their Amazon page:
Provided on each page is a wide variety of other resource books depending on the time period you are aiming on world-building around. I hope this helped.
Interaction Design
Interior Design
Landscape Architecture
Lighting Design
Product Design
Product Design
Sound Design
Urban Design
* Cities for People by Jan Gehl
Web Design
The Art of Game Design - Jesse Schell is very very good.
Game AI (Millington and Funge new edition iirc) is very very good.
Some non-game-design books that are very useful for those doing game design:
Scott McLoud: Making Comics (the other two in the series are good but the section on plot, characterization, and development in this one is great)
Donald Norman: The Design of Everyday Things. (How design works and how people interact with technology and...)
Christopher Alexander et al A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, and Construction (Thinking about scale and design elements and modularity and...)
Kevin Lynch: The Image of the City (How do urban spaces work - essential if your game is set in a city - how do people actually navigate)
Polti: The 36 Dramatic Situations (old, quirky, examines how there are really only a few human plots)
Matt Frederick: 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (how to think about and execute simple art, improve your design sense, ...)
Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City
a relatively short read, but discusses ideas of "imageability" central to urban design and planning
here you go :)
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I won't, but I will give you several sites and subreddits you should check out.
/r/urbanplanning
/r/urbandesign
/r/urbantransport
/r/highspeedrail
/r/transit
Congress for the New Urbanism
Congress for the New Urbanism's YouTube Channel
Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (planning firm)
Smart Growth Online
NewUrbanism.org
Strong Towns YouTube Channel
Notre Dame School of Architecture YouTube Channel
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Here are also some good book recommendations (links to Amazon pages), many you could probably find at a local library:
A Better Place to Live: Reshaping the American Suburb by Philip Langdon
The Architecture of Community by Leon Krier
Architecture: Choice or Fate by Leon Krier
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
The Smart Growth Manual by Andres Duany and Jeff Speck with Mike Lydon
Sprawl Repair Manual by Galina Tachieva
Retrofitting Suburbia by Ellen Dunham-Jones
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream by Andres Duany
History of Urban Form Before the Industrial Revolutions by A.E.J. Morris
The Language of Towns & Cities: A Visual Dictionary by Dhiru A. Thadani