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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as cities)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,802 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 — 8,619 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 — 28,734 ratings — published 1974
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 96,577 ratings — published 1972
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,163 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 — 2,398 ratings — published 2010
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,179 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 — 45,629 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 — 1,063 ratings — published 2004
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,979 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 — 4,569 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 — 754,474 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 — 7,540 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 — 34,328 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 — 56,057 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 — 116,432 ratings — published 2012
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,316 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 — 78,230 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 — 22,120 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 — 5,285 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 — 15,851 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
“With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear. Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
like home.”
― Everything Beautiful Began After
like home.”
― Everything Beautiful Began After
