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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,762 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 — 9,087 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,785 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 — 2,691 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 — 4,667 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 — 48,267 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 — 6,497 ratings — published 2011
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,266 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,130 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 — 31,281 ratings — published 1974
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,284 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 — 3,085 ratings — published
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,893 ratings — published 2016
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,510 ratings — published 2010
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,109 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 — 798 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 — 903 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 — 619 ratings — published 2020
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 746 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 — 3,964 ratings — published 2017
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,454 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 — 5,552 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 — 3,361 ratings — published 2002
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,589 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 — 7,896 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 — 1,361 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 — 704 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 — 1,599 ratings — published 2009
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,577 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 3.91 — 1,705 ratings — published 2019
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 941 ratings — published 1980
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,316 ratings — published 1969
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.11 — 845 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 — 1,496 ratings — published 1961
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,800 ratings — published 2023
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 385 ratings — published 2023
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 323 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 4.11 — 1,291 ratings — published 2022
Dark Age Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,294 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 — 121,640 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 — 5,532 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 4.01 — 137 ratings — published 2014
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,685 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 — 1,055 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
“Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession of eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance — not to a simple-minded precision dance with everyone kicking up at the same time, twirling in unison and bowing off en masse, but to an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and compose an orderly whole. The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any once place is always replete with new improvisations.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default.”
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
― Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men