Cities

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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
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Mike Bird
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Our Pool
Budapest: Between East and West
Boogie Boogie, Y'all
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
Cities for People
The Image of the City
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
The Economy of Cities
London: The Biography

Jane Jacobs
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Truman Capote
I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it. ...more
Truman Capote

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