Most Read This Week In 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
Budapest: Between East and West
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
Keeping the City Going
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
My City Speaks
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
Cerita-Cerita Jakarta
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
The Undercurrents
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
Antwerp
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
The World Belonged to Us
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Between Two Windows
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
There Are No Accidents
Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City
City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939
Everybody in the Red Brick Building: A Rhythmic Bedtime Story About Noisy Neighbors for Children (Ages 4–8)
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
Santa in the City
London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945
Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City
Jayden's Impossible Garden
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Belfast: The Story of a City and its People
Song in the City: A Charming Picture Book About a Blind Girl and Grandmother Experiencing Vibrant Sounds for Kids (Ages 4-8)
Our Pool
Boogie Boogie, Y'all
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
Athens: City of Wisdom
American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life
The Book of Reykjavik

Elmore Leonard
There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees; and there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living, whose reason for being might be geographical but whose growth is based on industry, jobs. Detroit has its natural attractions: lakes all over the place, an abundance of trees and four distinct seasons for those who like variety in their weather, everything but hurricanes and earth-quakes. But it’ ...more
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Charlotte Eriksson
There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave. ...more
Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

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