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
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 Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldMan Alone by Jack RemickGhost Tamer by Meredith R. LyonsA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
City Life
321 books — 203 voters

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve BrusatteI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraFascism by Madeleine K. AlbrightEnlightenment Now by Steven PinkerChildren of Nazis by Tania Crasnianski
Historical Nonfiction 2018
222 books — 56 voters

Cabbie with a Dangerous Mind by Karl WigginsTake Me with You by Brad NewshamHack by Melissa PlautWhite Boy in Watts by Karl WigginsConfessions of a New York Taxi Driver by Eugene Salomon
Cab Driver and Taxi Books
111 books — 10 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)
233 books — 39 voters


Rasmenia Massoud
A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.
Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad

Italo Calvino
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased," Polo said. "Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little. ...more
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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Sitting Under a Tree Group for city-dwelling nature lovers looking to reconnect with nature.
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Readers interested in cross disciplinary discussion specific to urban design and transportation …more
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A group for the exchange of books and ideas about cities.
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The Cycle Campaigners Book Club A book club for people to read about getting more people cycling, improving our streets and maki…more
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