Most Read This Week In Cities

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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Our Pool
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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 Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
The World Belonged to Us
Everybody in the Red Brick Building: A Rhythmic Bedtime Story About Noisy Neighbors for Children (Ages 4–8)
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Song in the City: A Charming Picture Book About a Blind Girl and Grandmother Experiencing Vibrant Sounds for Kids (Ages 4-8)
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
I Am the Subway
Cerita-Cerita Jakarta
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945
The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
Budapest: Between East and West
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
The Intimate City: Walking New York
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Keeping the City Going
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
My City Speaks
Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
Between Two Windows
2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City
City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, Its Popes, and Its People
The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
There Are No Accidents
Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939
Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
Santa in the City
The Undercurrents
Athens: City of Wisdom
The Book of Reykjavik
Antwerp
London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City
Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
Boogie Boogie, Y'all
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Jayden's Impossible Garden
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life
Belfast: The Story of a City and its People

James Weldon Johnson
New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing her alluring white face and hiding her crooked hands and feet under the folds of her wide garments--constantly enticing thousands from far within, and tempting those who come from across the seas to go no farther. And all these become the victims of her caprice. Some she at once crushes beneath her cruel feet; others she condemns to a fate like that of galley slaves; a ...more
James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

Italo Calvino
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. ...more
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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