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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,766 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,787 ratings — published 2012
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,918 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 4.43 — 48,285 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 — 6,497 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 — 9,090 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 — 779,957 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 — 31,293 ratings — published 1974
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,589 ratings — published 2021
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 — 3,361 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 3.49 — 1,361 ratings — published 2017
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,842 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 — 5,535 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 — 5,806 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 — 7,899 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 — 679 ratings — published 1984
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.36 — 521 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,085 ratings — published
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.21 — 914 ratings — published 2022
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,701 ratings — published 2023
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.62 — 991 ratings — published 2023
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,510 ratings — published 2010
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.92 — 433 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 — 1,290 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 — 1,778 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 — 7,588 ratings — published 2021
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,197 ratings — published 2019
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.38 — 747 ratings — published 2019
Greater than Ever: New York's Big Comeback (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.02 — 161 ratings — published
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.38 — 604 ratings — published 2018
The Whites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.64 — 11,151 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 — 301 ratings — published
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,556 ratings — published 1977
Dark Age Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,294 ratings — published 2004
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,316 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 — 846 ratings — published 2011
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,575 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 — 6,093 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 4.18 — 11,899 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 — 4,667 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 — 19,227 ratings — published 1972
Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America's Most Overlooked Resource (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 4.00 — 20 ratings — published
Going All City: Struggle and Survival in LA's Graffiti Subculture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 4.30 — 141 ratings — published
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 — 290 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
“In 35 years, 50 percent of our population will live in our cities. Most other countries will be in a similar situation. We need to start preparing now to ensure everyone has the opportunity to live meaningful lives, and our cities are places that will allow that to happen.”
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“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