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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
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The Economy of Cities
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4.09 avg rating — 1,297 ratings
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life
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4.11 avg rating — 672 ratings
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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4.36 avg rating — 9,568 ratings
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Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today's Housing Crisis
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Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 47,049 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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4.48 avg rating — 119,105 ratings
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
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4.07 avg rating — 9,170 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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4.33 avg rating — 174,307 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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4.53 avg rating — 30,038 ratings
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
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4.12 avg rating — 2,672 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 — 8,866 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 — 7,744 ratings
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Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Michigan) (Creating the North American Landscape)
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4.04 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World
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3.66 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Cities for People
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4.35 avg rating — 2,459 ratings
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Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
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4.24 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
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3.92 avg rating — 1,679 ratings
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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3.85 avg rating — 9,372 ratings
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Sidewalk
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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
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3.75 avg rating — 63 ratings
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Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
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3.88 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century
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3.84 avg rating — 719 ratings
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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
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4.08 avg rating — 1,371 ratings
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
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4.10 avg rating — 1,484 ratings
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Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
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4.19 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
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3.97 avg rating — 5,397 ratings
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
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4.42 avg rating — 5,492 ratings
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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
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3.72 avg rating — 8,207 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
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4.47 avg rating — 115,759 ratings
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Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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4.27 avg rating — 1,309 ratings
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Feminist City: A Field Guide
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3.88 avg rating — 4,356 ratings
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Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life
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4.19 avg rating — 134 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 — 2,118 ratings
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Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
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Cities and Race
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The New Urban Question
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3.48 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Invisible Cities
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4.09 avg rating — 99,155 ratings
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The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
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4.01 avg rating — 138 ratings
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The Urban Revolution
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4.07 avg rating — 382 ratings
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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4.21 avg rating — 7,077 ratings
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The Timeless Way of Building
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City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
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4.21 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change
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4.14 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
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3.76 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
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4.15 avg rating — 5,542 ratings
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Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
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4.37 avg rating — 604 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 — 3,879 ratings
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Love Where You Live: Creating Emotionally Engaging Places
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3.99 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future
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4.14 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities
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4.09 avg rating — 248 ratings
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The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
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4.46 avg rating — 6,943 ratings
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Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
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4.37 avg rating — 892 ratings
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Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
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3.59 avg rating — 226 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 — 2,242 ratings
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Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices From the Grassroots
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Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
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3.88 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
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3.57 avg rating — 142 ratings
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The city as a community
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The Other America: Poverty in the United States
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4.06 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men (Legacies of Social Thought) (Legacies of Social Thought Series)
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3.91 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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4.26 avg rating — 3,624 ratings
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Solved: How the World's Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis
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4.04 avg rating — 139 ratings
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
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4.21 avg rating — 4,943 ratings
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The Ghost Map
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
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3.72 avg rating — 1,595 ratings
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The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse
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3.72 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Why I Walk: Taking a Step in the Right Direction
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Social Ecology in the Digital Age: Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World
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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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The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach
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4.21 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Rethinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking
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3.40 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
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3.83 avg rating — 353 ratings
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
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4.04 avg rating — 2,088 ratings
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Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
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4.22 avg rating — 583 ratings
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Making the Invisible Visible: A Multicultural Planning History (California Studies in Critical Human Geography) (Volume 2)
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Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City
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3.53 avg rating — 74 ratings
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