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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as cities)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,333 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as cities)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,577 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as cities)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,871 ratings — published 2012
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as cities)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,449 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as cities)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,123 ratings — published 1974
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,312 ratings — published 1972
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,485 ratings — published 1961
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,922 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,572 ratings — published 2005
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as cities)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,464 ratings — published 2010
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,236 ratings — published 1960
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cities)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,130 ratings — published 2017
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 55 times as cities)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,951 ratings — published 1990
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,299 ratings — published 1969
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,062 ratings — published 2000
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,231 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,100 ratings — published 2004
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,495 ratings — published 1977
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cities)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,888 ratings — published 2017
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,614 ratings — published 1993
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.00 — 769,168 ratings — published 2003
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 846 ratings — published 2013
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cities)
avg rating 4.39 — 585 ratings — published 2018
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,633 ratings — published 1991
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,120 ratings — published 2012
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as cities)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,673 ratings — published 2000
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as cities)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,755 ratings — published 2020
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,330 ratings — published 2016
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.37 — 892 ratings — published 2011
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,876 ratings — published 1998
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,089 ratings — published 1985
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 3.90 — 80,309 ratings — published 2009
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,938 ratings — published 2006
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,967 ratings — published 2012
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,761 ratings — published 2020
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,471 ratings — published 2021
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,358 ratings — published 2017
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 4.11 — 672 ratings — published 1984
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,679 ratings — published 2019
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 932 ratings — published 1980
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,616 ratings — published 1948
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,423 ratings — published 2006
Istanbul: Memories and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,588 ratings — published 2003
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,403 ratings — published 2018
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,324 ratings — published 2004
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as cities)
avg rating 3.84 — 79,406 ratings — published 2020
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,966 ratings — published 2013
Detroit: An American Autopsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,990 ratings — published 2013
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 4.15 — 199 ratings — published 2008
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cities)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,363 ratings — published 2019
“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to take in as much light and love and colour and detail as they can.
The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into dazzling jungles.
What right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we don't yet understand. We are mere babes in the universe, all brothers and sisters in the nursery together. We had better learn to play nicely before we're allowed out..... And we want to go out, don't we? ..... Into the distant humming welcoming darkness.”
― SPAN
The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into dazzling jungles.
What right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we don't yet understand. We are mere babes in the universe, all brothers and sisters in the nursery together. We had better learn to play nicely before we're allowed out..... And we want to go out, don't we? ..... Into the distant humming welcoming darkness.”
― SPAN
“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
