Cities

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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986-1990
I Make Envy on Your Disco
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus
The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
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
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
Our Pool
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
Budapest: Between East and West
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
The Works: Anatomy of a City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Image of the City
Cities for People
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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
39 books — 18 voters
A Winter's Promise by Christelle DabosCastle in the Air by Diana Wynne JonesStrange the Dreamer by Laini TaylorLaputa by Hayao MiyazakiThe Floating Islands by Rachel Neumeier
Castles/Cities/Islands in the Sky
128 books — 17 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
224 books — 58 voters
Big Freedia by Big FreediaI Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldSexuality and Its Impact on History by Hunter S. JonesCreole by Sybil KeinBlack Life in Old New Orleans by Victor Block
New Orleans (nonfiction)
96 books — 34 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

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

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