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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.29 avg rating — 20,684 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 117,595 ratings
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Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities
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3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Urban Mystique: Notes on California, Los Angeles, and Beyond
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4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
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3.91 avg rating — 6,488 ratings
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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4.31 avg rating — 9,054 ratings
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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4.42 avg rating — 5,533 ratings
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
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4.13 avg rating — 2,688 ratings
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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
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4.07 avg rating — 3,952 ratings
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Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
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4.30 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
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3.73 avg rating — 1,598 ratings
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Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance
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4.22 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
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4.05 avg rating — 4,655 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.53 avg rating — 31,073 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.43 avg rating — 48,100 ratings
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The Economy of Cities
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4.09 avg rating — 1,312 ratings
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Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
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3.91 avg rating — 1,703 ratings
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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
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3.92 avg rating — 2,150 ratings
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life
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4.11 avg rating — 678 ratings
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
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4.10 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
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3.84 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street
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4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Pimp Guide: Secrets of Mind Manipulation (The Pimp Game Book 2)
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3.62 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
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4.11 avg rating — 844 ratings
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101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School
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4.22 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
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3.81 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis
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4.09 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Image of the City
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4.05 avg rating — 4,274 ratings
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Home Improvement
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4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
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4.25 avg rating — 3,064 ratings
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More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
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3.75 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
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4.12 avg rating — 153 ratings
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New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy
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4.30 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
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3.81 avg rating — 160 ratings
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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4.21 avg rating — 5,036 ratings
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Transit Maps Of The World
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4.25 avg rating — 871 ratings
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Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
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3.39 avg rating — 264 ratings
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The Rent Trap: How We Fell into It and How We Get Out of It (Left Book Club)
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4.04 avg rating — 89 ratings
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A History of Future Cities
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4.04 avg rating — 851 ratings
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What the River Reveals: Understanding and Restoring Healthy Watersheds
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
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3.61 avg rating — 818 ratings
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When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
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3.97 avg rating — 1,074 ratings
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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4.35 avg rating — 9,759 ratings
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Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
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3.85 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
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4.25 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
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3.97 avg rating — 10,424 ratings
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
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4.24 avg rating — 2,254 ratings
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Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era
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4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings
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When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor
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3.88 avg rating — 720 ratings
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A Burglar's Guide to the City
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3.37 avg rating — 3,683 ratings
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Planet of Slums
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4.01 avg rating — 3,451 ratings
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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
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4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
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4.08 avg rating — 5,835 ratings
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The Great Rent Wars: New York, 1917-1929
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
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3.86 avg rating — 5,680 ratings
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Cities for People
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4.34 avg rating — 2,497 ratings
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Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited
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3.68 avg rating — 3,359 ratings
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
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4.10 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
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4.10 avg rating — 2,262 ratings
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The Production of Space
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4.16 avg rating — 2,275 ratings
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If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
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3.12 avg rating — 362 ratings
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All That Is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster
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3.55 avg rating — 144 ratings
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In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis
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4.03 avg rating — 802 ratings
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Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism
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3.80 avg rating — 176 ratings
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