Cities

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The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations
Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
Budapest: Between East and West
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
Londoners: The Days and Nights of London Now - As Told by Those Who Love It, Hate It, Live It, Left It, and Long for It
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
The Land Trap: The eye-opening new history of the world's oldest asset from the Economist's Wall Street editor
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
The Image of the City
Cities for People
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
The Economy of Cities
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
London: The Biography
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
344 books — 291 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónIn the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah DunantSacred Hearts by Sarah DunantThe Birth of Venus by Sarah DunantThe Vatican Conspiracy by Peter Hogenkamp
Historical Cities of Southern Europe
133 books — 44 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
202 books — 32 voters

The Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonFor the Thrill of It by Simon BaatzThe Girls of Murder City by Douglas PerrySin in the Second City by Karen AbbottUgly Prey by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, PhD
Chicago Crime (nonfiction)
93 books — 43 voters
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth AngerCollateral Stardust by Nikki NashElvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu PresleyThe Princess Diarist by Carrie FisherWishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher
Hooray for Hollywood (non-fiction)
232 books — 48 voters


Roman Payne
“ Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will rise a certain individual to glory, it will destroy another who is not suited to its personality. Only through travel can we know where we belong or not, where we are loved and where we are rejected. ”
― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries

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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