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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 265 times as cities)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,373 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as cities)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,599 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as cities)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,894 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 3.91 — 6,451 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as cities)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,235 ratings — published 1974
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,532 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 — 116,140 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,574 ratings — published 2005
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as cities)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,470 ratings — published 2010
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,242 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 — 47,248 ratings — published 2017
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 55 times as cities)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,967 ratings — published 1990
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,301 ratings — published 1969
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,069 ratings — published 2000
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,231 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,102 ratings — published 2004
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,499 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 4.07 — 3,895 ratings — published 2017
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 — 4,620 ratings — published 1993
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 — 770,218 ratings — published 2003
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 847 ratings — published 2013
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cities)
avg rating 4.39 — 587 ratings — published 2018
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,636 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 — 2,120 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 — 2,677 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 — 7,770 ratings — published 2020
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,427 ratings — published 2016
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.37 — 894 ratings — published 2011
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,881 ratings — published 1998
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,090 ratings — published 1985
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,988 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 — 118,102 ratings — published 2012
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 3.90 — 80,480 ratings — published 2009
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,767 ratings — published 2020
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,482 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 3.50 — 1,359 ratings — published 2017
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 4.11 — 674 ratings — published 1984
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 934 ratings — published 1980
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,679 ratings — published 2019
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,631 ratings — published 1948
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,428 ratings — published 2006
Istanbul: Memories and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,625 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 — 5,419 ratings — published 2018
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,328 ratings — published 2004
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as cities)
avg rating 3.84 — 79,507 ratings — published 2020
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,375 ratings — published 2019
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,977 ratings — published 2013
Detroit: An American Autopsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.94 — 15,996 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 4.16 — 198 ratings — published 2008
“I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.”
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“Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make
