Cities

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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
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)
115 books — 40 voters
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyMystic River by Dennis LehaneThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodJohnny Tremain by Esther Forbes1776 by David McCullough
Boston Books
335 books — 284 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 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
1,743 books — 1,348 voters

Detroit by Charlie LeDuffMiddlesex by Jeffrey EugenidesDetroit, I Do Mind Dying by Dan GeorgakasDetroit City Is the Place to Be by Mark BinelliThe Dollmaker by Harriette Simpson Arnow
Detroit (fiction and nonfiction)
170 books — 75 voters
The Year of Ice by Brian MalloyWar for the Oaks by Emma BullWhen the House Burns by Priscilla PatonThe St. Paul Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Days of Rondo by Evelyn Fairbanks
Twin Cities Tales
38 books — 17 voters


Italo Calvino
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Edward Albee
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running. ...more
Edward Albee

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