Cities

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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
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Mike Bird
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
The World Belonged to Us
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Budapest: Between East and West
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix 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
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
The Economy of Cities
London: The Biography

Noël Coward
I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. ...more
Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics

Laini Taylor
The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It was a city of alchemists and dreamers, its medieval cobbles once trod by golems, mystics, invading armies. Tall houses glowed goldenrod and carmine and eggshell blue, embellished with Rococo plasterwork and capped in roofs of uniform red. Baroque cupolas were the soft green of antique copper, and Gothic steeples stood ready to impale fallen angels. The wind carri ...more
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

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