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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,929 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,158 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,870 ratings — published 2012
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,698 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 4.05 — 4,698 ratings — published 1993
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,750 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 — 6,521 ratings — published 2011
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,284 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,138 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 — 31,833 ratings — published 1974
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,300 ratings — published 1960
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,106 ratings — published
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,637 ratings — published 2016
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,530 ratings — published 2010
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,118 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 — 800 ratings — published 2019
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 — 910 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 — 621 ratings — published 2020
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 755 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 4.06 — 4,004 ratings — published 2017
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,469 ratings — published 1971
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 419 ratings — published 1993
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,574 ratings — published 1977
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 — 3,364 ratings — published 2002
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,604 ratings — published 2021
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 — 7,947 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 3.49 — 1,367 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 — 706 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 — 1,601 ratings — published 2009
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,579 ratings — published 2005
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 652 ratings — published 2021
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,715 ratings — published 2019
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 947 ratings — published 1980
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,322 ratings — published 1969
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.11 — 846 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 — 1,500 ratings — published 1961
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,928 ratings — published 2023
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 393 ratings — published 2023
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 324 ratings — published 2014
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 852 ratings — published 2013
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 — 1,310 ratings — published 2022
Dark Age Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,301 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 — 122,599 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 3.96 — 5,612 ratings — published 2018
Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.00 — 139 ratings — published 2014
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,713 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 — 676 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 — 1,060 ratings — published 2009
The Smart Growth Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 332 ratings — published 2004
Design of Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 273 ratings — published 1967
“City Planning and zoning have huge impacts on a city’s ability to steward various kinds of capital wisely.”
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“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