Cities

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Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
I Am the Subway
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
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
London: The Biography
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth AngerElvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu PresleyThe Princess Diarist by Carrie FisherWishful Drinking by Carrie FisherAll About All About Eve by Sam Staggs
Hooray for Hollywood (non-fiction)
233 books — 39 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldGhost Tamer by Meredith R. LyonsA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
City Life
318 books — 185 voters

The Year of Ice by Brian MalloyWar for the Oaks by Emma BullWhen the House Burns by Priscilla PatonThe St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Days of Rondo by Evelyn Fairbanks
Twin Cities Tales
38 books — 17 voters
The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFor the Thrill of It by Simon BaatzThe Girls of Murder City by Douglas PerrySin in the Second City by Karen AbbottUgly Prey by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, PhD
Chicago Crime (nonfiction)
90 books — 40 voters



Christopher  Morley
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley

Simon Van Booy
For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.
Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

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