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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as cities)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,788 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as cities)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,298 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as cities)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,618 ratings — published 2012
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as cities)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,375 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as cities)
avg rating 4.53 — 28,709 ratings — published 1974
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 96,518 ratings — published 1972
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,114 ratings — published 2016
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,467 ratings — published 1961
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,563 ratings — published 2005
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cities)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,395 ratings — published 2010
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,178 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 — 45,606 ratings — published 2017
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as cities)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,838 ratings — published 1990
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,277 ratings — published 1969
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,180 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,062 ratings — published 2004
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,977 ratings — published 2000
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,567 ratings — published 1993
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,419 ratings — published 1977
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cities)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,769 ratings — published 2017
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 844 ratings — published 2013
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cities)
avg rating 4.00 — 754,258 ratings — published 2003
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 4.38 — 564 ratings — published 2018
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,086 ratings — published 2012
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,572 ratings — published 1991
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as cities)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,654 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 — 7,536 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 — 880 ratings — published 2011
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,310 ratings — published 2016
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,076 ratings — published 1985
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,821 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 33 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,037 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 — 116,414 ratings — published 2012
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,313 ratings — published 2021
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,643 ratings — published 2020
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.90 — 78,194 ratings — published 2009
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 660 ratings — published 1984
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cities)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,649 ratings — published 2019
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 29 times as cities)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,347 ratings — published 2017
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,382 ratings — published 1948
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,344 ratings — published 2006
Istanbul: Memories and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,112 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 — 5,284 ratings — published 2018
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 912 ratings — published 1980
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,268 ratings — published 2004
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cities)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,795 ratings — published 2013
Detroit: An American Autopsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,849 ratings — published 2013
A Burglar's Guide to the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cities)
avg rating 3.37 — 3,608 ratings — published 2015
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 839 ratings — published 2011
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 24 times as cities)
avg rating 4.15 — 191 ratings — published 2008
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
― Invisible Cities
― Invisible Cities
“For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel
like home.”
― Everything Beautiful Began After
like home.”
― Everything Beautiful Began After
