Cities

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Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
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
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
I Am the Subway
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
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
London: The Biography
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldGhost Tamer by Meredith R. LyonsA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
City Life
318 books — 185 voters

Cocaine Blues by Kerry GreenwoodThe Slap by Christos TsiolkasThe Rosie Project by Graeme SimsionShantaram by Gregory David RobertsEarthly Delights by Kerry Greenwood
Books About Melbourne and Victoria
323 books — 109 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
1,692 books — 1,261 voters


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

Italo Calvino
There is still one of which you never speak.' Marco Polo bowed his head. 'Venice,' the Khan said. Marco smiled. 'What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?' The emperor did not turn a hair. 'And yet I have never heard you mention that name.' And Polo said: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice. ...more
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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