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Urban Development Books
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,909 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,368 ratings — published 2012
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,737 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 — 45,881 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 — 6,390 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 4.32 — 8,669 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 — 758,238 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 — 29,060 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 — 3,351 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 — 1,349 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 — 2,678 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 — 5,304 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 — 814 ratings — published 2013
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,184 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 — 7,580 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 4.10 — 663 ratings — published 1984
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,487 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 4.38 — 450 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,904 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 — 810 ratings — published 2022
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 61,305 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 — 921 ratings — published
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,416 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 — 422 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 4.14 — 1,172 ratings — published 2022
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,680 ratings — published 2022
Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,173 ratings — published 2019
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.39 — 689 ratings — published 2019
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.39 — 570 ratings — published 2018
The Whites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.64 — 10,961 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 3.47 — 297 ratings — published
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,440 ratings — published 1977
Dark Age Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,269 ratings — published 2004
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,282 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 — 839 ratings — published 2011
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-development)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,238 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 — 5,826 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 — 11,476 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 4.05 — 4,581 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 4.25 — 18,583 ratings — published 1972
Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,344 ratings — published 2016
Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 3.65 — 124 ratings — published
Hans Albert Einstein: Life of a Pioneer in River Engineering (Asce Press)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2014
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 3.78 — 166 ratings — published 1995
The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 4.55 — 55 ratings — published
Hidden Cities: Travels to the Secret Corners of the World's Great Metropolises: a Memoir of Urban Exploration (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 3.66 — 487 ratings — published 2013
Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 4.16 — 171,596 ratings — published 1960
A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus: Finding the Past in the Present in Ohio’s Capital City (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-development)
avg rating 3.62 — 29 ratings — published 2012
“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
“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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