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Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
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3.77 avg rating — 238 ratings
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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
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4.12 avg rating — 1,245 ratings
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The Lost Subways of North America: A Cartographic Guide to the Past, Present, and What Might Have Been
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4.13 avg rating — 338 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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4.44 avg rating — 47,503 ratings
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
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4.18 avg rating — 5,586 ratings
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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4.31 avg rating — 8,937 ratings
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The High Cost of Free Parking
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4.20 avg rating — 1,112 ratings
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Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
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3.95 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
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3.93 avg rating — 1,049 ratings
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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
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4.29 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
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4.37 avg rating — 496 ratings
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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4.35 avg rating — 9,660 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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4.29 avg rating — 20,466 ratings
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A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
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4.12 avg rating — 426 ratings
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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
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4.13 avg rating — 801 ratings
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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
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4.07 avg rating — 3,912 ratings
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Why Public Space Matters
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3.63 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
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4.39 avg rating — 728 ratings
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
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3.97 avg rating — 5,438 ratings
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
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4.20 avg rating — 1,488 ratings
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Messy Cities: Why We Can't Plan Everything
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3.63 avg rating — 121 ratings
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A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places
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3.81 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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4.26 avg rating — 2,241 ratings
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
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3.78 avg rating — 7,507 ratings
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American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
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3.71 avg rating — 289 ratings
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Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
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3.70 avg rating — 1,545 ratings
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
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4.22 avg rating — 1,559 ratings
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The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America
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4.31 avg rating — 404 ratings
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The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream
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4.17 avg rating — 291 ratings
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The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
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4.13 avg rating — 224 ratings
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Billionaires' Row: Tycoons, High Rollers, and the Epic Race to Build the World's Most Exclusive Skyscrapers
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4.05 avg rating — 940 ratings
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City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
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3.80 avg rating — 97 ratings
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