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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,446 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,920 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,638 ratings — published 2012
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,679 ratings — published 2000
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,627 ratings — published 1993
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,429 ratings — published 2017
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,458 ratings — published 2011
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,239 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,107 ratings — published 2004
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,432 ratings — published 1974
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,244 ratings — published 1960
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,012 ratings — published
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,460 ratings — published 2016
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,092 ratings — published 1985
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.24 — 791 ratings — published 2019
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,479 ratings — published 2010
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 895 ratings — published 2011
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 614 ratings — published 2020
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.39 — 727 ratings — published 2019
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,907 ratings — published 2017
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,438 ratings — published 1971
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.30 — 418 ratings — published 1993
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,358 ratings — published 2002
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,796 ratings — published 2020
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 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,359 ratings — published 2017
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 696 ratings — published 2015
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,595 ratings — published 2009
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,576 ratings — published 2005
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,502 ratings — published 1977
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 645 ratings — published 2021
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,683 ratings — published 2019
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 935 ratings — published 1980
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,305 ratings — published 1969
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.11 — 842 ratings — published 2011
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,486 ratings — published 1961
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,567 ratings — published 2023
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,556 ratings — published 2021
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 847 ratings — published 2013
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 370 ratings — published 2023
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,243 ratings — published 2022
Dark Age Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,290 ratings — published 2004
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.48 — 119,899 ratings — published 2010
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,430 ratings — published 2018
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 318 ratings — published 2014
Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.01 — 137 ratings — published 2014
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,643 ratings — published 1991
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.77 — 677 ratings — published 2012
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,048 ratings — published 2009
The Smart Growth Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 331 ratings — published 2004
Design of Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 272 ratings — published 1967
“El propio observador debe desempeñar un papel activo al percibir el mundo y tener una participación creadora en la elaboración de su imagen. Debe contar con el poder de cambiar esa imagen para adaptarse a necesidades cambiantes. Un medio ambiente que está ordenado en forma detallada y definitiva puede impedir que aparezcan nuevas pautas de actividad. Un paisaje en el que cada una de las rocas narra una historia puede hacer difícil la creación de nuevas historias. Aunque ésta pueda no parecer una cuestión decisiva en nuestro actual caos urbano, indica, con todo, que lo que buscamos no es un orden definitivo sino abierto a las posibilidades, capaz de un ininterrumpido desarrollo ulterior.”
― The Image of the City
― The Image of the City
“Resentment festers in a place where the unfortunate, the illiterate are forced to ogle at the wonderful lives of the other side. But this is what the Unni Ehtral desired. To garden a place where these unfortunates simmer in hate, and the fortunate marinate in fear.”
― Dance of Shadows
― Dance of Shadows
