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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,952 ratings — published 1961
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure)
by (shelved 7 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,581 ratings — published 1977
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,168 ratings — published 2012
The Architecture of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,971 ratings — published 2006
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,699 ratings — published 1993
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,882 ratings — published 2012
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,688 ratings — published 1957
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.38 — 756 ratings — published 2019
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,469 ratings — published 1971
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,909 ratings — published 1994
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,923 ratings — published 1974
A Theology of the Built Environment: Justice, Empowerment, Redemption (Volume 0)
by (shelved 4 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.88 — 40 ratings — published 1998
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,421 ratings — published 2020
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,352 ratings — published 2023
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,535 ratings — published 2010
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,943 ratings — published 2023
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,812 ratings — published 2017
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,316 ratings — published 2022
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,797 ratings — published 2022
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.12 — 707 ratings — published 2015
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,738 ratings — published 2016
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.38 — 719 ratings — published 2018
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,952 ratings — published 2020
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,698 ratings — published 2000
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,077 ratings — published 1990
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,301 ratings — published 1960
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,525 ratings — published 2011
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,332 ratings — published 1981
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,116 ratings — published 1985
Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.27 — 63 ratings — published 2011
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.62 — 1,003 ratings — published 2023
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.13 — 868 ratings — published 2024
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,535 ratings — published 2024
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.14 — 360 ratings — published 2023
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,569 ratings — published 2022
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.82 — 163 ratings — published 2008
Trains, Buses, People: An Opinionated Atlas of US Transit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.25 — 177 ratings — published
Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,830 ratings — published 1996
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,558 ratings — published 2019
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,010 ratings — published 2017
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.31 — 420 ratings — published 1993
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.37 — 910 ratings — published 2011
Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.05 — 103 ratings — published
The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.21 — 227 ratings — published
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.37 — 620 ratings — published 2020
Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.08 — 238 ratings — published 2002
Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 4.06 — 889 ratings — published 2000
Home by Design: Transforming Your House into Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.95 — 282 ratings — published 2004
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.99 — 100,360 ratings — published 2010
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as built-environment)
avg rating 3.65 — 57,860 ratings — published 2019
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