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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as cities)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,055 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as cities)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,938 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as cities)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,200 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 — 6,543 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 — 32,400 ratings — published 1974
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,676 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 — 1,504 ratings — published 1961
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,213 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,584 ratings — published 2005
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,319 ratings — published 1960
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cities)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,546 ratings — published 2010
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cities)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,116 ratings — published 1990
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,330 ratings — published 1969
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as cities)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,148 ratings — published 2017
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as cities)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,154 ratings — published 2000
The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,808 ratings — published 2026
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 50 times as cities)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,601 ratings — published 1977
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,145 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,295 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 — 4,712 ratings — published 1993
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.38 — 611 ratings — published 2018
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,031 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 — 787,733 ratings — published 2003
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 853 ratings — published 2013
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,737 ratings — published 1991
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as cities)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,574 ratings — published 2014
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,182 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 — 2,702 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 — 7,978 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 — 914 ratings — published 2011
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,917 ratings — published 2020
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 3.93 — 38,442 ratings — published 2016
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,933 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 — 58,139 ratings — published 2006
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,906 ratings — published 2002
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,721 ratings — published 2017
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 83,676 ratings — published 2009
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,880 ratings — published 2025
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,821 ratings — published 2012
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,122 ratings — published 1985
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 4.48 — 11,472 ratings — published 2023
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,859 ratings — published 2020
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 951 ratings — published 1980
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,675 ratings — published 2021
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,249 ratings — published 2014
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 — 1,365 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 — 684 ratings — published 1984
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cities)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,962 ratings — published 2014
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cities)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,721 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 — 5,643 ratings — published 2018
“I liked the idea of living in a city — any city, especially a strange one — liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, walking the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make
