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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as planning)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,616 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,017 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,730 ratings — published 2012
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as planning)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,886 ratings — published 1974
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,265 ratings — published 1960
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as planning)
avg rating 4.43 — 47,905 ratings — published 2017
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,646 ratings — published 1993
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,491 ratings — published 2010
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 36 times as planning)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,518 ratings — published 1977
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,250 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as planning)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,120 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,257 ratings — published 2016
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,686 ratings — published 2000
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as planning)
avg rating 3.85 — 721 ratings — published 1988
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,478 ratings — published 2011
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,491 ratings — published 1961
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 650 ratings — published 1969
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 24 times as planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 419 ratings — published 1993
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 938 ratings — published 1980
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as planning)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,103 ratings — published 1985
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as planning)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,942 ratings — published 2017
A Theory of Good City Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as planning)
avg rating 4.08 — 301 ratings — published 1981
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,045 ratings — published
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as planning)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,454 ratings — published 2019
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,268 ratings — published 2022
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,309 ratings — published 1969
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 599 ratings — published 2018
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,447 ratings — published 1971
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as planning)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,319 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,702 ratings — published 2019
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as planning)
avg rating 4.00 — 169,843 ratings — published 2001
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,849 ratings — published 2020
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 737 ratings — published 2019
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 4.24 — 794 ratings — published 2019
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,488 ratings — published 2018
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 901 ratings — published 2011
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (Anchor Books)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 3.82 — 551 ratings — published 1991
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,034 ratings — published 1989
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,579 ratings — published 2021
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 3.82 — 162 ratings — published 2008
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,245 ratings — published 2008
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,898 ratings — published 1994
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,570 ratings — published 2000
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,662 ratings — published 1991
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,145 ratings — published 2012
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as planning)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,596 ratings — published 2009
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,682 ratings — published 2023
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 322 ratings — published 2014
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 4.00 — 776,239 ratings — published 2003
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,017 ratings — published 1990
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
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“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.”
― Collected Poems of Robert Burns
― Collected Poems of Robert Burns
