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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,936 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,684 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,385 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 — 2,655 ratings — published 2000
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,585 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 4.44 — 45,998 ratings — published 2017
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,069 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 — 29,136 ratings — published 1974
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,397 ratings — published 2011
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,201 ratings — published 2016
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,202 ratings — published 1960
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,908 ratings — published
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,976 ratings — published 2016
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,080 ratings — published 1985
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,420 ratings — published 2010
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 — 779 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 — 3,803 ratings — published 2017
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,394 ratings — published 1971
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 883 ratings — published 2011
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.30 — 416 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 — 3,350 ratings — published 2002
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 602 ratings — published 2020
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 — 7,601 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 — 1,349 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 3.72 — 1,586 ratings — published 2009
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,567 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 — 5,443 ratings — published 1977
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.39 — 692 ratings — published 2019
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,660 ratings — published 2019
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,282 ratings — published 1969
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.11 — 839 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 — 1,476 ratings — published 1961
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,205 ratings — published 2023
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.39 — 627 ratings — published 2021
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,492 ratings — published 2021
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 917 ratings — published 1980
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 844 ratings — published 2013
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.22 — 352 ratings — published 2023
Dark Age Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,270 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 — 117,030 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 — 5,317 ratings — published 2018
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.99 — 315 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 — 133 ratings — published 2014
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,583 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 — 678 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 3.92 — 1,028 ratings — published 2009
The Smart Growth Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 329 ratings — published 2004
Design of Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.06 — 270 ratings — published 1967
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.00 — 759,327 ratings — published 2003
“Another famous town planning concept, the Finger Plan for Copenhagen, was based on a metaphor sand shown by a diagram, of a great hand resting over that city. Since 1947, the great hand has guided Copenhagen’s development. The merchant’s harbour, after which the city was named, sits in the palm of the guiding hand. Fingers point ways to new development. Power lines, telecom lines, and rapid transit lines follow the bones, arteries, veins and nerves of the fingers. Between those fingers we find the green lands of Denmark. Copenhagen was made into a garden city but the hand itself, of urban development, was grey.”
― City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning
― City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning
“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
