Cities

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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
I Make Envy on Your Disco
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Invisible Cities
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Works: Anatomy of a City
Cities for People
The Image of the City
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Economy of Cities
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
London: The Biography
Set the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisA Place at the Nayarit by Natalia MolinaThe Library Book by Susan OrleanWater to the Angels by Les StandifordCity of Quartz by Mike  Davis
Los Angeles (nonfiction)
116 books — 41 voters

A Winter's Promise by Christelle DabosCastle in the Air by Diana Wynne JonesStrange the Dreamer by Laini TaylorLaputa by Hayao MiyazakiThe Floating Islands by Rachel Neumeier
Castles/Cities/Islands in the Sky
127 books — 16 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,749 books — 1,336 voters

Season of the Witch by David TalbotThe Bohemians by Ben TarnoffSan Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries by Beth WinegarnerThe Barbary Coast by Herbert AsburyBART by Michael C. Healy
San Francisco History
193 books — 30 voters
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrauNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Silver Chair by C.S. LewisTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneThe Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Underground Cities
255 books — 53 voters


Simon Van Booy
For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.
Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After

Jane Jacobs
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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