Cities

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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
I Make Envy on Your Disco
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
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
The Economy of Cities
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
London: The Biography

Roman Payne
Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.
Roman Payne, Cities & Countries

Italo Calvino
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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