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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as cities)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,906 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as cities)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,862 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as cities)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,149 ratings — published 2012
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as cities)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,518 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cities)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,746 ratings — published 1974
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 102,703 ratings — published 1972
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,500 ratings — published 1961
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,579 ratings — published 2005
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cities)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,557 ratings — published 2016
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,298 ratings — published 1960
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cities)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,528 ratings — published 2010
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cities)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,070 ratings — published 1990
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as cities)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,701 ratings — published 2017
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,321 ratings — published 1969
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as cities)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,138 ratings — published 2000
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 50 times as cities)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,571 ratings — published 1977
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,136 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,283 ratings — published 2016
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 — 4,694 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 4.06 — 4,003 ratings — published 2017
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 — 783,630 ratings — published 2003
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 852 ratings — published 2013
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cities)
avg rating 4.38 — 609 ratings — published 2018
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,710 ratings — published 1991
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,173 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 — 2,697 ratings — published 2000
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as cities)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,940 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 — 909 ratings — published 2011
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,882 ratings — published 2020
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 36,832 ratings — published 2016
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,923 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 34 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,808 ratings — published 2006
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,826 ratings — published 2009
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,118 ratings — published 1985
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,458 ratings — published 2012
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 947 ratings — published 1980
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,628 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 3.49 — 1,366 ratings — published 2017
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 679 ratings — published 1984
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cities)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,712 ratings — published 2019
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cities)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,607 ratings — published 2018
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,838 ratings — published 1948
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,472 ratings — published 2006
Istanbul: Memories and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.82 — 23,048 ratings — published 2003
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.83 — 81,100 ratings — published 2020
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,381 ratings — published 2004
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cities)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,141 ratings — published 2013
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,543 ratings — published 2019
Detroit: An American Autopsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,076 ratings — published 2013
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 4.11 — 845 ratings — published 2011
“American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“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
