Cities

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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
Our Pool
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
Budapest: Between East and West
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
The Works: Anatomy of a City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Image of the City
Cities for People
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Economy of Cities
London: The Biography
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrauNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Silver Chair by C.S. LewisAll That We Reflect by Izzy BondTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Underground Cities
258 books — 63 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,754 books — 1,345 voters



Italo Calvino
“ There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?' The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.' And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice. ...more ”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Roman Payne
“ This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad. ”
― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries

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