Cities

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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
I Make Envy on Your Disco
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
The Undercurrents
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
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
The Economy of Cities
London: The Biography
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 Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraFascism by Madeleine K. AlbrightEnlightenment Now by Steven PinkerChildren of Nazis by Tania Crasnianski
Historical Nonfiction 2018
219 books — 53 voters

The Hockey Sweater by Roch CarrierGuests of War Trilogy by Kit PearsonWhispers of War by Kit PearsonLucy Maud and Me by Mary Frances CoadyToronto Street Names by Leonard Wise
Toronto for Kids
88 books — 23 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisWhite Oleander by Janet FitchThe Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestThe Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Los Angeles (fiction and nonfiction)
322 books — 289 voters


John Steinbeck
American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

Neil Gaiman
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.
Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

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