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
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
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Historical Nonfiction 2018
222 books — 56 voters
The Hockey Sweater by Roch CarrierGuests of War Trilogy by Kit PearsonWhispers of War by Kit PearsonLucy Maud and Me by Mary Frances CoadyToronto Street Names by Leonard Wise
Toronto for Kids
89 books — 24 voters



Ling  Ma
To live in a city is to live the life that it was built for, to adapt to its schedule and rhythms, to move within the transit layout made for you during the morning and evening rush, winding through the crowds of fellow commuters. To live in a city is to consume its offerings. To eat at its restaurants. To drink at its bars. To shop at its stores. To pay its sales taxes. To give a dollar to its homeless. To live in a city is to take part in and to propagate its impossible systems. To wake up. ...more
Ling Ma, Severance

Terry Pratchett
The city's full of people who you just see around. ...more
Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

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