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Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

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

Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

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

The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990

Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City

The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

Alexandria: The City that Changed the World

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

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

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

Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough

A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing

Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World

A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow

Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed

Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System

Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See

Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945

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

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

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe

Belfast: The Story of a City and its People

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

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

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

Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing

Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems

The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City

Everybody in the Red Brick Building: A Rhythmic Bedtime Story About Noisy Neighbors for Children (Ages 4–8)

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

Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

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

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

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

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“ With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. ”
― Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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“ By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange. ”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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