Atlanta Urbanist Book Group
A Better Atlanta, One Book at a Time
Our mission at the Atlanta Urbanist Book Group is to introduce new ideas to Urban Atlanta by reading recent books about cities, identifying the ideas we think would work in Atlanta, and offering civic leaders a guide to these ideas.
We define “urbanism” broadly. We are reading books about transportation, land use, housing, public safety, government reform, neighborhoods, social infrastructure, education, economic development, regionalism, diversity, politics, arts and culture, volunteerism, and more.
Our aim isn’t to review books but to show how their ideas apply to Atlanta today and suggest ways of moving from good ideas to good actions.
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Next Book: The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
Aug 6, 2025
We will discuss a book about how cities could be happier and more resilient places if they changed how their neighborhoods worked. The change: Bring nearly everything people need for daily life within a 15-minute walk, bike ride or bus ride, including housing, work, shopping, health care, education and entertainment.
Carlos Moreno is a professor at Paris’ Sorbonne University.
We will look for ways of making Urban Atlanta’s neighborhoods work better and the role that proximity might play.