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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.29 avg rating — 20,685 ratings
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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4.26 avg rating — 2,262 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.53 avg rating — 31,078 ratings
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Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival
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4.12 avg rating — 702 ratings
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Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
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4.45 avg rating — 536 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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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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4.35 avg rating — 9,760 ratings
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
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4.20 avg rating — 1,530 ratings
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The High Cost of Free Parking
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4.19 avg rating — 1,123 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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Visions of Seaside: Foundation/Evolution/Imagination. Built and Unbuilt Architecture
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4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Steel and Grit: A History of the Lower Hudson Valley and the Bear Mountain Bridge (New York State Series)
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
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4.03 avg rating — 7,879 ratings
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Reflections on Seaside: Muses/Ideas/Influences
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted
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4.34 avg rating — 1,251 ratings
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Public Parks: The Key to Livable Communities (Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design, and Engineering)
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3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Windsor Forum on Design Education
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
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4.18 avg rating — 5,741 ratings
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Humanize: A Maker's Guide to Designing Our Cities
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4.23 avg rating — 854 ratings
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The Language of Towns & Cities: A Visual Dictionary
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4.44 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Adapt: How Humans Are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future
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3.99 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Visions of Seaside: Foundation/Evolution/Imagination. Built and Unbuilt Architecture
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4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Seeing the Better City: How to Explore, Observe, and Improve Urban Space
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3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
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4.38 avg rating — 652 ratings
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Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America (Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design)
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3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Ways of Knowing Cities
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Cities We Need
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3.71 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Making of Modern Los Angeles
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street
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4.07 avg rating — 1,426 ratings
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Rebuilding Earth: Designing Ecoconscious Habitats for Humans
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3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
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4.38 avg rating — 601 ratings
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Shaping the Postwar Landscape: New Profiles from the Pioneers of American Landscape Design Project
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The New City: How to Build Our Sustainable Urban Future
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4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach
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4.21 avg rating — 226 ratings
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A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
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4.11 avg rating — 446 ratings
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Archaeology of Urban America: The Search for Pattern and Process
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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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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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
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3.98 avg rating — 359 ratings
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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
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4.13 avg rating — 2,822 ratings
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The Walkable City: From Haussmann's Boulevards to Jane Jacobs' Streets and Beyond
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3.48 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Perfect City: An Urban Fixer's Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis
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3.61 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Urban Ecology: A Natural Way to Transform Kids, Parks, Cities, and the World
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4.43 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Urban Smellscapes
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Southeast Asian Houses: Embracing Urban Context
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It
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3.49 avg rating — 1,358 ratings
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City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
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3.87 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
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3.62 avg rating — 660 ratings
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Transporting Atlanta: The Mode of Mobility Under Construction (SUNY series in Urban Public Policy)
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America
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3.28 avg rating — 117 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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Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence
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3.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
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3.78 avg rating — 250 ratings
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Landscape Into Cityscape
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
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4.13 avg rating — 832 ratings
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The Living City: Why Cities Don't Need to Be Green to Be Great
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2.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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City Life
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3.75 avg rating — 432 ratings
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
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4.10 avg rating — 331 ratings
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The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities
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3.92 avg rating — 138 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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City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
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3.73 avg rating — 96 ratings
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Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis
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3.74 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers
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4.07 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
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4.02 avg rating — 1,005 ratings
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Habitats: Private Lives in the Big City
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3.57 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams (Haymarket Series)
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3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
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3.73 avg rating — 298 ratings
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The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities
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4.07 avg rating — 395 ratings
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The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
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4.13 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
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3.91 avg rating — 323 ratings
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How Cities Work
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4.28 avg rating — 88 ratings
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Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of the Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.04 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
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4.06 avg rating — 1,034 ratings
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Fantastic Cities: A Coloring Book of Amazing Places Real and Imagined
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4.31 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
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4.43 avg rating — 4,215 ratings
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Concrete: From Ancient Origins to a Problematic Future
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4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
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3.85 avg rating — 4,828 ratings
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The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
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3.45 avg rating — 531 ratings
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