We’ll be talking about city planning, including what makes for a good city and how much planning should there actually be (versus organic growth).
Here are two readings to facilitate discussion (not required, as usual):
Jane Jacobs on cities
http://www.zompist.com/jacobs.html
A Scalable Urban Design and the Single Building City
And SlateStarCodex has a related post that we covered in the May 2019 meet-up:
Book Review: Seeing Like A State