Get Urban!: The Complete Guide to City Living

How to live an Urban Lifestyle

This Lens is for those living an urban lifestyle. This includes topics ranging from rooftop gardening, hi-rise living.

Urban Living

Get Urban!: The Complete Guide to City Living (Capital Ideas)

by Kyle Ezell

Amazon Price: $15.16 (as of 10/08/2008)

"Kyle Ezell shows how to live a fascinating urban life."

Vancouver, BC, Canada Urban Living Lifestyle

Urban Living at it's best in Vancouver, BC

Vancouver is the city that has it all: natural beauty and cosmopolitan flair. Set between the Pacific Ocean and the coastal mountains, it has a harmonious blend of nature and urban living. Gardens, parks, and beaches are as common here as heritage buildings, restaurants, and theatres.

While maintaining the laid-back attitude of North America's West Coast, Vancouver has managed to build an international spirit. As the third largest city in Canada, it shares an ethnic diversity and multicultural flavour with the rest of the country. It's young, lively, and the jumping-off point for many spectacular outdoor activities.

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Links

AOL CityGuide: A city resource and interactive community. Provides local news, entertainment and community resources for over 60 metropolitan areas.
Rooftop Gardening: Urban agriculture notes.
New Colonist: For city dwellers committed to urban life and for others who are preparing to return to the metropolis. Includes articles and essays, history, analysis, and city guide information. Emphasis on sustainable urban development.
Experiments in Sustainable Urban Living: This site details one family's experiences in Portland, Oregon and how it can be applied in other urban environments.
CarLiving.com: Tips and advice on how to live out of a vehicle as a temporary alternative to housing. Includes stories, opinions and essential techniques.
Australian Terraced Houses: Photos of Victorian and Edwardian terraced houses and streetscapes in Australia
Lifestyle and Concierge Services: Offers lifestyle management, personal assistant and concierge services to Londoners.
Earth Smart Urban Living: A project to make urban living more environmentally friendly. Includes details of a model home in Portland, Oregon.
The 25th Hour: Providing professional lifestyle management with one to one support. Based in UK.
Mufti: Weblog about urban recreation. Includes articles on urban exploration, absurdist cooking.
Self Sufficientish: Information on growing plants, wild food recipes, and alternatives to lead a low impact urban life.
Money, Trees, Sidewalks, Glue: Weblog originating in Chicago, Illinois that explores the city's culture, commerce, and communities.

Cities Ranked and Rated: More than 400 Metropolitan Areas Evaluated in the U.S. and Canada, 1st Edition

by Bert Sperling, Peter Sander

Cities Ranked & Rated: Your Guide to the Best Places to Live in the U.S. & Canada provides timely facts and unbiased information on over 400 U.S. and 30 Canadian cities in an easy-to-access format.

Amazon Price: (as of 10/08/2008)

Small Urban Interiors: 500 Solutions for Living

by Ana G. Canizares

Amazon Price: $25.55 (as of 10/08/2008)

Lofts: New Designs for Urban Living

by Felicia Eisenberg Molnar

Beautifully illustrates the best of loft living from New York to Tokyo, and Los Angeles to London.

Amazon Price: $18.00 (as of 10/08/2008)

Sprawl: A Compact History

by Robert Bruegmann

Amazon Price: $22.00 (as of 10/08/2008)

The Urban World

by J. John Palen

Amazon Price: $93.40 (as of 10/08/2008)

Urban Living Thoughts

Unlike the sad and lonely commute faced by suburbanites, sitting all alone in their SUV while stuck in a big traffic jam, the urban dweller on the subway gets to share a communal experience with his fellow humans and partake of the great diversity that the city has to offer

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The Other View

People unfamiliar with city living think that city dwellers never have any privacy, what with all those people around. But actually, it often seems that the opposite is true. The huge mass of people makes each individual person anonymous in the vast sea of humanity.