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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

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

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

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

52 Ways to Walk: The Surprising Science of Walking for Wellness and Joy, One Week at a Time

Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City

The Land Trap: The eye-opening new history of the world's oldest asset from the Economist's Wall Street editor

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

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource

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

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

Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis

Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

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

A Fortress in Brooklyn: Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg

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

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

American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest

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

The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is―and Isn’t

Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis

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

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

City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

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

Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality

The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet

Rooted: The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership

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

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

Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it

Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities

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

The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

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

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

Město pro každého: Manuál urbanisty začátečníka

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

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

Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

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

Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing

Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing

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

Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too

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

Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City's Soul

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― Charles Marohn

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