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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as cities)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,214 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as cities)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,524 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as cities)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,813 ratings — published 2012
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,431 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as cities)
avg rating 4.53 — 29,778 ratings — published 1974
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 98,633 ratings — published 1972
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,485 ratings — published 1961
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,297 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,572 ratings — published 2005
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as cities)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,447 ratings — published 2010
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,225 ratings — published 1960
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as cities)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,787 ratings — published 2017
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,294 ratings — published 1969
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cities)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,915 ratings — published 1990
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,040 ratings — published 2000
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,221 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,092 ratings — published 2004
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,480 ratings — published 1977
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,607 ratings — published 1993
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,857 ratings — published 2017
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.00 — 765,821 ratings — published 2003
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 845 ratings — published 2013
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cities)
avg rating 4.39 — 582 ratings — published 2018
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,614 ratings — published 1991
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,111 ratings — published 2012
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as cities)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,668 ratings — published 2000
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as cities)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,693 ratings — published 2020
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as cities)
avg rating 4.38 — 890 ratings — published 2011
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,096 ratings — published 2016
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,860 ratings — published 1998
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,087 ratings — published 1985
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,724 ratings — published 2006
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 3.98 — 117,572 ratings — published 2012
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,738 ratings — published 2020
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 3.90 — 79,734 ratings — published 2009
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,431 ratings — published 2021
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,356 ratings — published 2017
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 669 ratings — published 1984
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,671 ratings — published 2019
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 926 ratings — published 1980
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,565 ratings — published 1948
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,400 ratings — published 2006
Istanbul: Memories and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,442 ratings — published 2003
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,364 ratings — published 2018
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,306 ratings — published 2004
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.84 — 79,053 ratings — published 2020
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,915 ratings — published 2013
Detroit: An American Autopsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.93 — 15,956 ratings — published 2013
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 4.17 — 198 ratings — published 2008
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cities)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,326 ratings — published 2019
“A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.”
― Broken Abroad
― Broken Abroad
“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
