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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 269 times as cities)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,054 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as cities)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,938 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 127 times as cities)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,200 ratings — published 2012
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as cities)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,543 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as cities)
avg rating 4.53 — 32,398 ratings — published 1974
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,664 ratings — published 1972
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,504 ratings — published 1961
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,201 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,584 ratings — published 2005
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,319 ratings — published 1960
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cities)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,546 ratings — published 2010
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as cities)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,116 ratings — published 1990
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,330 ratings — published 1969
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as cities)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,144 ratings — published 2017
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as cities)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,154 ratings — published 2000
The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,799 ratings — published 2026
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 50 times as cities)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,601 ratings — published 1977
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,145 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,295 ratings — published 2016
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 — 4,712 ratings — published 1993
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.38 — 611 ratings — published 2018
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,031 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 — 787,721 ratings — published 2003
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 853 ratings — published 2013
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,737 ratings — published 1991
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as cities)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,572 ratings — published 2014
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,181 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 — 2,702 ratings — published 2000
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as cities)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,978 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 4.37 — 914 ratings — published 2011
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,917 ratings — published 2020
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 3.93 — 38,439 ratings — published 2016
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,933 ratings — published 1998
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 58,136 ratings — published 2006
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,906 ratings — published 2002
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,720 ratings — published 2017
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 83,670 ratings — published 2009
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,858 ratings — published 2025
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,814 ratings — published 2012
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,122 ratings — published 1985
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 4.48 — 11,469 ratings — published 2023
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 4.49 — 36,854 ratings — published 2020
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 951 ratings — published 1980
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,675 ratings — published 2021
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 4.21 — 45,250 ratings — published 2014
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 3.50 — 1,365 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 — 684 ratings — published 1984
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cities)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,957 ratings — published 2014
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cities)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,721 ratings — published 2019
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as cities)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,643 ratings — published 2018
“The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentieth or nineteenth, for that matter. It was a city of alchemists and dreamers, its medieval cobbles once trod by golems, mystics, invading armies. Tall houses glowed goldenrod and carmine and eggshell blue, embellished with Rococo plasterwork and capped in roofs of uniform red. Baroque cupolas were the soft green of antique copper, and Gothic steeples stood ready to impale fallen angels. The wind carried the memory of magic, revolution, violins, and the cobbled lanes meandered like creeks. Thugs wore Motzart wigs and pushed chamber music on street corners, and marionettes hung in windows, making the whole city seem like a theater with unseen puppeteers crouched behind velvet.”
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.”
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
― Travels with Charley: In Search of America
