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The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town? (Paperback) by M. Cooper bookshelves: currently-reading |
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recommended for: urbanists, emotional saps, NIMBYs
read in September, 2007 
Megan Allison said:
"Most of the essays are firsthand accounts of residents watching their neighborhoods change over time, which serves to pull emotional strings but never really elevates the debate into planning logic. It's compelling and an interesting (if voyeuristic)...more
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Megan Allison
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The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town? (Paperback) by M. Cooper bookshelves: currently-reading |
my rating:
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recommended for: urbanists, emotional saps, NIMBYs
read in September, 2007
Megan Allison said:
"Most of the essays are firsthand accounts of residents watching their neighborhoods change over time, which serves to pull emotional strings but never really elevates the debate into planning logic. It's compelling and an interesting (if voyeuristic)...more
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Megan Allison
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Bonjour Tristesse (Paperback) by Françoise Sagan bookshelves: chickshelf |
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recommended for: 19 year old girls smoking in sidewalk cafes and aping sophistication, and the perverts watching them
read in January, 1999, has a copy to sell/swap
Megan Allison said:
"emotional turmoil, incest and lesbianism are paramount to the sophisticate existence. also, French people are cooler than us.
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Vice Dos and Don'ts: 10 Years of VICE Magazine's Street Fashion Critiques (Paperback) by Suroosh Alvi |
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recommended for: preschoolers, housewives, grandparents
Megan Allison said:
"i learned everything I know from this book.
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Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia (Paperback) by Elizabeth Gilbert bookshelves: chickshelf |
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recommended for: housewives, people easily duped into joining cults.
read in August, 2007
Megan Allison said:
"If I got paid to take an international soul-searching mission for the purpose of writing a watery bestseller marketed to the Oprah crowd, I would at least (a) distill it into a readable sense of purpose, and (b) have my grammar checked.
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Megan Allison
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Absurdistan (Paperback) by Gary Shteyngart |
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recommended for: the same ugly dudes who love "Confederacy of Dunces."
read in July, 2007, has a copy to sell/swap
Megan Allison said:
"Please see this chick's review of "Confederacy of Dunces." http://www.goodreads.com/user/...
Now sub the Eastern Bloc for New Orleans, and there you go. Except mayb " |
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover) by Jane Jacobs bookshelves: nerdshelf |
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recommended for: urbanists, Americans, humans
read in December, 2001
Megan Allison said:
"no book has ever had a more profound effect on my thought processes or life direction.
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Dark Age Ahead (Paperback) by Jane Jacobs bookshelves: nerdshelf |
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recommended for: planning geeks, social historians, nerds, Americans, people
read in July, 2005
Megan Allison said:
"we are simultaneously fundamentally regenerative and totally fucked.
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