Cities

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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
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
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)
91 books — 41 voters

The Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareNotre-Dame de Paris by Victor HugoThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerDubliners by James JoyceA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  Smith
Cities
1,591 books — 139 voters
Season of the Witch by David TalbotThe Bohemians by Ben TarnoffSan Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries by Beth WinegarnerThe Barbary Coast by Herbert AsburyBART by Michael C. Healy
San Francisco History
193 books — 30 voters

Cocaine Blues by Kerry GreenwoodThe Slap by Christos TsiolkasThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionShantaram by Gregory David RobertsEarthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood
Books About Melbourne and Victoria
330 books — 112 voters
Set the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaThe Library Book by Susan OrleanWater to the Angels by Les StandifordCity of Quartz by Mike  Davis
Los Angeles (nonfiction)
115 books — 40 voters


Jane Jacobs
By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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

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