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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

Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back

The Land Trap: A New H...

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Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

The Pacific Circuit: A Globalized Account of the Battle for the Soul of an American City

Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns

Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Alexandria: The City that Changed the World

We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City

Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It

Everybody in the Red Brick Building: A Rhythmic Bedtime Story About Noisy Neighbors for Children (Ages 4–8)

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

Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945

A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation

City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics

Song in the City: A Charming Picture Book About a Blind Girl and Grandmother Experiencing Vibrant Sounds for Kids (Ages 4-8)

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall

London Clay: Journeys into the Deep City

Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities

Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia

Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation

When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency

The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers

2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed

City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia

Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

Belfast: The Story of a City and its People

Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It

Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

The Book of Ramallah: A City in Short Fiction

London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City

City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles

Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems

Paradise Bronx: The Life and Times of New York's Greatest Borough

Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City

Gdynia obiecana. Miasto, modernizm, modernizacja 1920-1939

A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places

Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System

The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City

The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America

The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe

Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See

Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City

Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

Lost Cities, Ancient Tombs: 100 Discoveries That Changed the World

Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte's Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life

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