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Cities Books
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 264 times as cities)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,103 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as cities)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,459 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as cities)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,742 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 3.92 — 6,411 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as cities)
avg rating 4.53 — 29,507 ratings — published 1974
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 98,106 ratings — published 1972
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.47 — 114,763 ratings — published 2016
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,481 ratings — published 1961
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,570 ratings — published 2005
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as cities)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,436 ratings — published 2010
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,218 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 — 46,462 ratings — published 2017
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,290 ratings — published 1969
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cities)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,888 ratings — published 1990
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,027 ratings — published 2000
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,213 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,083 ratings — published 2004
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,467 ratings — published 1977
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 — 4,593 ratings — published 1993
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,839 ratings — published 2017
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cities)
avg rating 4.00 — 763,092 ratings — published 2003
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 844 ratings — published 2013
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 4.39 — 579 ratings — published 2018
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,105 ratings — published 2012
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,606 ratings — published 1991
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as cities)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,661 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 — 7,658 ratings — published 2020
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as cities)
avg rating 4.37 — 891 ratings — published 2011
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,874 ratings — published 2016
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,851 ratings — published 1998
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,084 ratings — published 1985
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,546 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 — 117,214 ratings — published 2012
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,392 ratings — published 2021
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,714 ratings — published 2020
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 — 1,352 ratings — published 2017
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.90 — 79,297 ratings — published 2009
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 667 ratings — published 1984
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,669 ratings — published 2019
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 926 ratings — published 1980
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,530 ratings — published 1948
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,382 ratings — published 2006
Istanbul: Memories and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,360 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 — 5,343 ratings — published 2018
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,300 ratings — published 2004
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,882 ratings — published 2013
Detroit: An American Autopsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,929 ratings — published 2013
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cities)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,283 ratings — published 2019
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as cities)
avg rating 3.84 — 78,755 ratings — published 2020
A Burglar's Guide to the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cities)
avg rating 3.37 — 3,631 ratings — published 2015
“Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected.”
― Cities & Countries
― Cities & Countries
“To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.”
―
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.”
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