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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as cities)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,739 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as cities)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,771 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as cities)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,080 ratings — published 2012
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as cities)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,492 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as cities)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,207 ratings — published 1974
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 101,527 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 — 1,494 ratings — published 1961
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cities)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,780 ratings — published 2016
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as cities)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,577 ratings — published 2005
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as cities)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,505 ratings — published 2010
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as cities)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,282 ratings — published 1960
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as cities)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,189 ratings — published 2017
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as cities)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,314 ratings — published 1969
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 54 times as cities)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,040 ratings — published 1990
London: The Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as cities)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,116 ratings — published 2000
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as cities)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,126 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,265 ratings — published 2016
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as cities)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,958 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 — 4,659 ratings — published 1993
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 47 times as cities)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,543 ratings — published 1977
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 — 779,112 ratings — published 2003
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 851 ratings — published 2013
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as cities)
avg rating 4.38 — 602 ratings — published 2018
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cities)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,680 ratings — published 1991
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,153 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 — 2,688 ratings — published 2000
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as cities)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,889 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 — 902 ratings — published 2011
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 3.92 — 36,129 ratings — published 2016
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,905 ratings — published 1998
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as cities)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,108 ratings — published 1985
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,519 ratings — published 2006
The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as cities)
avg rating 3.89 — 82,026 ratings — published 2009
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,832 ratings — published 2020
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as cities)
avg rating 3.98 — 119,045 ratings — published 2012
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as cities)
avg rating 4.33 — 940 ratings — published 1980
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as cities)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,582 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 — 1,360 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 — 679 ratings — published 1984
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 3.97 — 5,526 ratings — published 2018
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,703 ratings — published 2019
Here Is New York (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.30 — 10,752 ratings — published 1948
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,454 ratings — published 2006
Istanbul: Memories and the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cities)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,893 ratings — published 2003
The City We Became (Great Cities, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.83 — 80,577 ratings — published 2020
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage)
by (shelved 27 times as cities)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,363 ratings — published 2004
Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as cities)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,086 ratings — published 2013
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,492 ratings — published 2019
Detroit: An American Autopsy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as cities)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,058 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 4.15 — 203 ratings — published 2008
“I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.”
― Collected Sketches and Lyrics
― Collected Sketches and Lyrics
“To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.”
―
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning.”
―
