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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
Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Antwerp
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction
Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia
A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe
Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
The World Belonged to Us
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
The Undercurrents
I Am the Subway
My City Speaks
Cerita-Cerita Jakarta
Boogie Boogie, Y'all
Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
A Kingdom and a Village: A One-Thousand-Year History of Moscow
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough
Between Two Windows
Our Pool
The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
The Intimate City: Walking New York
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
Santa in the City
Athens: City of Wisdom
Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
Keeping the City Going
City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
Fitopolis, la città vivente
Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945
Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency
2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
Belfast: The Story of a City and its People
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City
City of Echoes: A New History of Rome, Its Popes, and Its People
Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing
No. 91/92: A Diary of a Year on the Bus
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
There Are No Accidents
Sideways: The City Google Couldn't Buy
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
Everybody in the Red Brick Building: A Rhythmic Bedtime Story About Noisy Neighbors for Children (Ages 4–8)
The Book of Reykjavik
American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life
London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
Jayden's Impossible Garden
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
Song in the City

Jane Jacobs
“ Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. ”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Noël Coward
“ I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. ...more ”
― Noël Coward, Collected Sketches and Lyrics

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