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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,502 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,166 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,491 ratings — published 2012
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,151 ratings — published 1960
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 37 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,364 ratings — published 1977
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,372 ratings — published 2010
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.40 — 657 ratings — published 2019
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,036 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,791 ratings — published
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.33 — 905 ratings — published 1980
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,645 ratings — published 2000
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,145 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.44 — 44,903 ratings — published 2017
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,531 ratings — published 1993
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 660 ratings — published 2018
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,326 ratings — published 2011
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,462 ratings — published 1961
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,423 ratings — published 2020
How to Study Public Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 376 ratings — published 2013
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,361 ratings — published 1971
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.30 — 414 ratings — published 1993
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.19 — 4,886 ratings — published 2023
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.52 — 27,920 ratings — published 1974
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.81 — 161 ratings — published 2008
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.92 — 191 ratings — published 2007
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 841 ratings — published 2011
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 689 ratings — published 2015
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.64 — 636 ratings — published 2016
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 871 ratings — published 2011
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.84 — 713 ratings — published 1988
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 645 ratings — published 1969
A Theory of Good City Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 302 ratings — published 1981
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 617 ratings — published 2021
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 764 ratings — published 2019
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,259 ratings — published 1969
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,573 ratings — published 2009
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,556 ratings — published
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,608 ratings — published 1978
Design of Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.06 — 268 ratings — published 1967
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,450 ratings — published 2021
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,104 ratings — published 2019
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,221 ratings — published 2018
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 357 ratings — published 1991
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.44 — 422 ratings — published 2022
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,140 ratings — published 2022
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,571 ratings — published 2020
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.47 — 111,600 ratings — published 2016
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.02 — 941 ratings — published 2018
101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 302 ratings — published
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,157 ratings — published 2008
“Today, one marvels at the conversions of old buildings that are now offices and and residences or both. Office buildings are apartment houses, mansions are office buildings, manufacturing lofts are apartments, tenement apartments are small factories, everything from a barge to a barn is a restaurant...These buildings were not designed with flexibility in mind, but their manageable scale provided inherent adjustability and their design and quality constriction provided inherent appeal.”
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“True enough, we need an environment which is not simply well organized, but poetic and symbolic as well... By appearing as a remarkable and well-knit place, the city could provide a ground for the clustering and organization of these meanings and associations. Such a sense of place in itself enhances every human activity that occurs there, and encourages the deposit of a memory trace.”
― The image of the city
― The image of the city
