Cities

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The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Budapest: Between East and West
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
The Land Trap: The eye-opening new history of the world's oldest asset from the Economist's Wall Street editor
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Invisible Cities
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Works: Anatomy of a City
The Image of the City
Cities for People
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
The Economy of Cities
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
London: The Biography
Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind by Karl WigginsTake Me with You by Brad NewshamHack by Melissa PlautWhite Boy in Watts by Karl WigginsConfessions of a New York Taxi Driver by Eugene Salomon
Cab Driver and Taxi Books
111 books — 10 voters
I Rode with Morgan by Jonathan M. JacksonThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund  MorrisThe Island at the Center of the World by Russell ShortoMornings on Horseback by David McCulloughI Rode with Morgan by Jonathan Jackson
New York State History (nonfiction)
209 books — 43 voters

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la PeñaKnuffle Bunny by Mo WillemsTar Beach by Faith RinggoldMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyFlower Garden by Eve Bunting
Picture Books for Urban Kids
357 books — 26 voters
A Fall of Marigolds by Susan MeissnerWhat Was Ellis Island? by Patricia Brennan DemuthMurphy's Law by Rhys BowenIf Your Name Was Changed At Ellis Island by Ellen LevineAmerican Passage by Vincent J. Cannato
Ellis Island: Fiction & Non-Fiction
30 books — 19 voters


Charlotte Eriksson
“ There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave. ...more ”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

Italo Calvino
“ With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. ”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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