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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Santa in the City
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
The Undercurrents
Het recht van de snelste
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939
The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction
There Are No Accidents
Everybody in the Red Brick Building: A Heartwarming Urban Picture Book About Bedtime Sounds for Children (Ages 4-8)
Betonoza. Jak się niszczy polskie miasta
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
Ambergris (Ambergris, #1-3)
Between Two Windows
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Budapest: Between East and West
Antwerp
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Cerita-Cerita Jakarta
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy
The Golden Maze
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Goodnight, Veggies
The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World
Keeping the City Going
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
I Am the Subway
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
Song in the City
Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City
2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
The Book of Reykjavik
The Walker: On Losing and Finding Yourself in the Modern City
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis
Athens: City of Wisdom
American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life
The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Spirits of San Francisco: Voyages through the Unknown City
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
In the City
The City on the Thames: The Creation of a World Capital: A History of London
Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London
City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia
Our Pool
Belfast: The Story of a City and its People
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
Kunoichi Bunny
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City
The World Belonged to Us
My City Speaks
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
Jayden's Impossible Garden
Berlin: The Story of a City
Boogie Boogie, Y'all

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