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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,919 ratings — published 2012
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,118 ratings — published 1949
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,431 ratings — published 1961
Urban Land Use Planning (Fourth Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 3.89 — 84 ratings — published 1979
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,241 ratings — published 2022
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.19 — 27,626 ratings — published 2021
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,634 ratings — published 2012
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,402 ratings — published 1974
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,624 ratings — published 1993
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,679 ratings — published 2000
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.09 — 270,321 ratings — published 1980
The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.42 — 624 ratings — published 2016
House of Day, House of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.03 — 10,020 ratings — published 1998
Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.32 — 25 ratings — published
Winter Witness (Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery Book #1)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.11 — 134 ratings — published 2020
Waiting for Gautreaux: A Story of Segregation, Housing, and the Black Ghetto (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.71 — 42 ratings — published 2006
Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,273 ratings — published 2016
Rabbit Hill (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,410 ratings — published 1944
Just Imagine (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.77 — 8,748 ratings — published 1984
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,595 ratings — published 2009
Anatomy of a Park: The Essentials of Recreation Area Planning and Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1992
Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.34 — 38 ratings — published 2013
Urban Pattern (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.12 — 42 ratings — published 1982
Living above the Store: Building a Business That Creates Value, Inspires Change, and Restores Land and Community (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.14 — 7 ratings — published 2009
Retrofitting Sprawl: Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2015
Creating Wealth Through Probate: The Best-Kept Secret in Real Estate Investing (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 1.83 — 6 ratings — published 2005
Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.46 — 1,506 ratings — published 2008
The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.04 — 47 ratings — published 2009
Over: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.18 — 38 ratings — published 2008
Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.00 — 69 ratings — published 2005
How to Sell Your Home in 5 Days (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.37 — 43 ratings — published 1993
Death by Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.31 — 338 ratings — published 2006
Butterflies of the Colorado Front Range: A Photographic Guide to 100 Species (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.80 — 5 ratings — published
The Wealth Of Cities: Revitalizing The Centers Of American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.85 — 53 ratings — published 1998
The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.51 — 464 ratings — published 2006
Het recht van de snelste (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,909 ratings — published 2020
Ike's Road Trip: How Eisenhower's 1919 Convoy Paved the Way for the Roads We Travel (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.28 — 162 ratings — published
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,891 ratings — published 1994
Human Transit, Revised Edition: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.50 — 124 ratings — published
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.98 — 318 ratings — published 2014
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,555 ratings — published 2021
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,237 ratings — published 2016
The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.77 — 465 ratings — published 2025
Carbon Neutral Indiana: A Practical Guide to Climate Optimism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.12 — 657 ratings — published 2024
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.37 — 490 ratings — published
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,009 ratings — published
There Are No Accidents (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,322 ratings — published 2022
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,107 ratings — published 2004
Worn: A People's History of Clothing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,573 ratings — published 2022
“He turned to his own place then . . . and began to ask what might be the best use of it. How might a family live there without reducing it?”
― Remembering
― Remembering
“The fallacy the economic determinists have tied around our collective neck, and which we now need to cast off, is the belief that economics determines all land-use. This is simply not true. An innumerable host of actions and attitudes, comprising perhaps the bulk of all land relations, is determined by the land-users’ tastes and predilections, rather than by his purse.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
