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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 9,201 ratings — published 2012
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.31 — 38,077 ratings — published 1949
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,061 ratings — published 1961
Urban Land Use Planning (Fourth Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 3.90 — 83 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 4.11 — 1,331 ratings — published 2022
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,471 ratings — published 2021
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as land-use)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,936 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 — 32,419 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 4.05 — 4,712 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 — 2,702 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 — 275,958 ratings — published 1980
Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.22 — 416 ratings — published
A Dark Path: And Other Kate Burkholder Short Stories (Kate Burkholder #11.5, 12.5, 13.5, 14.5, 15.5, 17.5)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,872 ratings — published
Nature and the Mind: The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical, and Social Well-Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.85 — 330 ratings — published
Sidewalk Nation: The Life and Law of America's Most Overlooked Resource (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.01 — 35 ratings — published
The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.43 — 638 ratings — published 2016
House of Day, House of Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.00 — 11,676 ratings — published 1998
Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.25 — 28 ratings — published
Winter Witness (Batavia-on-Hudson Mystery Book #1)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.11 — 137 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 3.74 — 43 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 — 2,312 ratings — published 2016
Rabbit Hill (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,498 ratings — published 1944
Just Imagine (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.77 — 8,813 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 — 1,601 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 4.32 — 39 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 — 1,510 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 3.99 — 70 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 3.30 — 340 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 — 470 ratings — published 2006
Het recht van de snelste (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,965 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 3.31 — 176 ratings — published
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,916 ratings — published 1994
Human Transit (Revised Edition): How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.53 — 149 ratings — published
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 3.98 — 327 ratings — published 2014
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,619 ratings — published 2021
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as land-use)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,296 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 3.74 — 560 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 — 753 ratings — published 2024
Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 545 ratings — published
“Local and state governments can help civil society by building towns and cities in ways more conducive to neighborliness and community building. Walkability is a big thing. Mixing residential and commercial development would create real neighborhoods where people can walk to the corner store for a gallon of milk and run into their neighbors. It could allow for “third places” like neighborhood pubs, barbershops, and sandwich shops.”
― Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
― Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
“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