Cities

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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Budapest: Between East and West
Our Pool
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
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
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)
171 books — 74 voters
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth AngerElvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu PresleyThe Princess Diarist by Carrie FisherWishful Drinking by Carrie FisherAll About All About Eve by Sam Staggs
Hooray for Hollywood (non-fiction)
236 books — 42 voters

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
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

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
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisWhite Oleander by Janet FitchThe Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestThe Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Los Angeles (fiction and nonfiction)
345 books — 297 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

John Steinbeck
American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

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