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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as cities)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,805 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as cities)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,304 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 — 8,620 ratings — published 2012
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as cities)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,377 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as cities)
avg rating 4.53 — 28,738 ratings — published 1974
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 96,585 ratings — published 1972
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,172 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 — 1,468 ratings — published 1961
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,563 ratings — published 2005
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cities)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,399 ratings — published 2010
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,180 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 — 45,634 ratings — published 2017
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cities)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,842 ratings — published 1990
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,276 ratings — published 1969
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,181 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,064 ratings — published 2004
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,980 ratings — published 2000
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,568 ratings — published 1993
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,421 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 4.08 — 3,769 ratings — published 2017
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 844 ratings — published 2013
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 — 754,496 ratings — published 2003
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,085 ratings — published 2012
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as cities)
avg rating 4.38 — 564 ratings — published 2018
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,572 ratings — published 1991
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as cities)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,653 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 — 7,541 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 — 880 ratings — published 2011
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,330 ratings — published 2016
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,076 ratings — published 1985
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,822 ratings — published 1998
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,059 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 — 116,435 ratings — published 2012
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,317 ratings — published 2021
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,648 ratings — published 2020
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.90 — 78,228 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 — 661 ratings — published 1984
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cities)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,650 ratings — published 2019
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 29 times as cities)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,347 ratings — published 2017
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,390 ratings — published 1948
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,347 ratings — published 2006
Istanbul: Memories and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,121 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 — 5,286 ratings — published 2018
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 912 ratings — published 1980
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,269 ratings — published 2004
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cities)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,800 ratings — published 2013
Detroit: An American Autopsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,852 ratings — published 2013
A Burglar's Guide to the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cities)
avg rating 3.37 — 3,612 ratings — published 2015
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 839 ratings — published 2011
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 24 times as cities)
avg rating 4.15 — 191 ratings — published 2008
“New York City is the most fatally fascinating thing in America. She sits like a great witch at the gate of the country, showing her alluring white face and hiding her crooked hands and feet under the folds of her wide garments--constantly enticing thousands from far within, and tempting those who come from across the seas to go no farther. And all these become the victims of her caprice. Some she at once crushes beneath her cruel feet; others she condemns to a fate like that of galley slaves; a few she favors and fondles, riding them high on the bubbles of fortune; then with a sudden breath she blows the bubbles out and laughs mockingly as she watches them fall.”
― The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
― The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
“You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
