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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

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

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

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

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

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

Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia

Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency

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

Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939

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

London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City

Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

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

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“ 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

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“ 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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