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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as planning)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,180 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as planning)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,792 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as planning)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,498 ratings — published 2012
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as planning)
avg rating 4.53 — 29,694 ratings — published 1974
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,222 ratings — published 1960
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as planning)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,713 ratings — published 2017
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,602 ratings — published 1993
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,441 ratings — published 2010
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 35 times as planning)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,477 ratings — published 1977
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,152 ratings — published 2016
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,666 ratings — published 2000
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as planning)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,091 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,220 ratings — published 2016
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as planning)
avg rating 3.84 — 718 ratings — published 1988
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,426 ratings — published 2011
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,484 ratings — published 1961
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 646 ratings — published 1969
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 24 times as planning)
avg rating 4.30 — 417 ratings — published 1993
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 926 ratings — published 1980
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,088 ratings — published 1985
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as planning)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,855 ratings — published 2017
A Theory of Good City Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as planning)
avg rating 4.08 — 302 ratings — published 1981
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,958 ratings — published
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as planning)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,317 ratings — published 2019
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,294 ratings — published 1969
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,421 ratings — published 1971
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as planning)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,196 ratings — published 2022
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as planning)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,118 ratings — published 2020
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as planning)
avg rating 4.00 — 168,546 ratings — published 2001
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 4.39 — 582 ratings — published 2018
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,678 ratings — published 2020
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 710 ratings — published 2019
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 4.24 — 785 ratings — published 2019
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,673 ratings — published 2019
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 890 ratings — published 2011
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (Anchor Books)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 3.82 — 548 ratings — published 1991
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,015 ratings — published 1989
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,517 ratings — published 2021
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,358 ratings — published 2018
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,204 ratings — published 2008
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,612 ratings — published 1991
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,112 ratings — published 2012
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as planning)
avg rating 3.81 — 161 ratings — published 2008
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as planning)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,592 ratings — published 2009
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,882 ratings — published 1994
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as planning)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,276 ratings — published 2000
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,383 ratings — published 2023
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 3.99 — 315 ratings — published 2014
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 4.00 — 765,052 ratings — published 2003
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,904 ratings — published 1990
“Is it dangerous to plan too much? Yes, we all need to plan, to have a plan, but life goes on regardless of our plans and we know only too well what happens to so many of the best laid plans of mice and men!”
― The Golden Tup
― The Golden Tup
“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.”
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