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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,446 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,638 ratings — published 2012
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,461 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,432 ratings — published 2017
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,458 ratings — published 2011
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,920 ratings — published 2012
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 771,843 ratings — published 2003
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,433 ratings — published 1974
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,358 ratings — published 2002
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 3 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,359 ratings — published 2017
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,781 ratings — published 2020
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,430 ratings — published 2018
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.61 — 818 ratings — published 2013
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,567 ratings — published 2023
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,796 ratings — published 2020
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 676 ratings — published 1984
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,556 ratings — published 2021
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.37 — 490 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,012 ratings — published
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.20 — 884 ratings — published 2022
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 65,102 ratings — published 2023
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.64 — 956 ratings — published
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,479 ratings — published 2010
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 428 ratings — published 2022
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,243 ratings — published 2022
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,748 ratings — published 2022
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,500 ratings — published 2021
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,193 ratings — published 2019
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.39 — 727 ratings — published 2019
Greater than Ever: New York's Big Comeback (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.02 — 160 ratings — published
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.39 — 589 ratings — published 2018
The Whites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.64 — 11,040 ratings — published 2015
The Evolution of American Urban Society (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.66 — 67 ratings — published 1975
The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.48 — 299 ratings — published
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,502 ratings — published 1977
Dark Age Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,290 ratings — published 2004
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,305 ratings — published 1969
The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.65 — 764 ratings — published 2013
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 842 ratings — published 2011
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,076 ratings — published 2006
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,002 ratings — published 2013
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,729 ratings — published 2004
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,627 ratings — published 1993
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 18,975 ratings — published 1972
Dialectical Urbanism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 3.71 — 28 ratings — published 2002
Cities under Austerity: Restructuring the US Metropolis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
Thank You, Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 3.83 — 287 ratings — published
Finding a Common Interest: The Story of Dick Dusseldorp and Lend Lease (Volume 0)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 4.38 — 8 ratings — published 2003
Sandfuture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 131 ratings — published 2021
Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,405 ratings — published 2016
“Inexpensive Progress
Encase your legs in nylons,
Bestride your hills with pylons
O age without a soul;
Away with gentle willows
And all the elmy billows
That through your valleys roll.
Let's say goodbye to hedges
And roads with grassy edges
And winding country lanes;
Let all things travel faster
Where motor car is master
Till only Speed remains.
Destroy the ancient inn-signs
But strew the roads with tin signs
'Keep Left,' 'M4,' 'Keep Out!'
Command, instruction, warning,
Repetitive adorning
The rockeried roundabout;
For every raw obscenity
Must have its small 'amenity,'
Its patch of shaven green,
And hoardings look a wonder
In banks of floribunda
With floodlights in between.
Leave no old village standing
Which could provide a landing
For aeroplanes to roar,
But spare such cheap defacements
As huts with shattered casements
Unlived-in since the war.
Let no provincial High Street
Which might be your or my street
Look as it used to do,
But let the chain stores place here
Their miles of black glass facia
And traffic thunder through.
And if there is some scenery,
Some unpretentious greenery,
Surviving anywhere,
It does not need protecting
For soon we'll be erecting
A Power Station there.
When all our roads are lighted
By concrete monsters sited
Like gallows overhead,
Bathed in the yellow vomit
Each monster belches from it,
We'll know that we are dead.”
― Collected Poems
Encase your legs in nylons,
Bestride your hills with pylons
O age without a soul;
Away with gentle willows
And all the elmy billows
That through your valleys roll.
Let's say goodbye to hedges
And roads with grassy edges
And winding country lanes;
Let all things travel faster
Where motor car is master
Till only Speed remains.
Destroy the ancient inn-signs
But strew the roads with tin signs
'Keep Left,' 'M4,' 'Keep Out!'
Command, instruction, warning,
Repetitive adorning
The rockeried roundabout;
For every raw obscenity
Must have its small 'amenity,'
Its patch of shaven green,
And hoardings look a wonder
In banks of floribunda
With floodlights in between.
Leave no old village standing
Which could provide a landing
For aeroplanes to roar,
But spare such cheap defacements
As huts with shattered casements
Unlived-in since the war.
Let no provincial High Street
Which might be your or my street
Look as it used to do,
But let the chain stores place here
Their miles of black glass facia
And traffic thunder through.
And if there is some scenery,
Some unpretentious greenery,
Surviving anywhere,
It does not need protecting
For soon we'll be erecting
A Power Station there.
When all our roads are lighted
By concrete monsters sited
Like gallows overhead,
Bathed in the yellow vomit
Each monster belches from it,
We'll know that we are dead.”
― Collected Poems
“Hey! Pal! How do I get to town from
here?
And he ssid: Well, just take a right
where they're gonna build that new
shopping mall,
go straight past where they're gonna
put in the freeway,
take a left at what's gonna be the new
sports center,
and keep going until you hit the place
where they´re thiinking of
building that drive-in bank. You can't
miss it.
And I said: This must be the place.”
― United States Reprint edition by Anderson, Laurie (1984) Paperback
here?
And he ssid: Well, just take a right
where they're gonna build that new
shopping mall,
go straight past where they're gonna
put in the freeway,
take a left at what's gonna be the new
sports center,
and keep going until you hit the place
where they´re thiinking of
building that drive-in bank. You can't
miss it.
And I said: This must be the place.”
― United States Reprint edition by Anderson, Laurie (1984) Paperback
