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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,074 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 — 9,207 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,937 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 — 2,702 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 — 4,712 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 — 49,205 ratings — published 2017
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,321 ratings — published 1960
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 — 6,546 ratings — published 2011
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,130 ratings — published
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,295 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,146 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 — 32,457 ratings — published 1974
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,281 ratings — published 2016
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,546 ratings — published 2010
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,122 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 — 803 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 — 914 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 — 624 ratings — published 2020
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 765 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 — 4,032 ratings — published 2017
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,482 ratings — published 1971
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 10 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 420 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 — 5,604 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 4.21 — 1,619 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 — 7,982 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 — 1,365 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 — 707 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 4.09 — 1,584 ratings — published 2005
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 660 ratings — published 2021
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,722 ratings — published 2019
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 951 ratings — published 1980
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,332 ratings — published 1969
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.11 — 848 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 — 1,504 ratings — published 1961
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,021 ratings — published 2023
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.20 — 397 ratings — published 2023
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 328 ratings — published 2014
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 854 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 — 1,331 ratings — published 2022
Dark Age Ahead (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,309 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 — 123,645 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 — 5,648 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 — 140 ratings — published 2014
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,743 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 3.92 — 1,063 ratings — published 2009
The Smart Growth Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 333 ratings — published 2004
Design of Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as city-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 274 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
“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