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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as planning)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,811 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,109 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,817 ratings — published 2012
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as planning)
avg rating 4.44 — 48,385 ratings — published 2017
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as planning)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,400 ratings — published 1974
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,289 ratings — published 1960
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,678 ratings — published 1993
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,515 ratings — published 2010
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 36 times as planning)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,560 ratings — published 1977
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as planning)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,133 ratings — published 2004
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,095 ratings — published 2016
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,273 ratings — published 2016
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,693 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 — 726 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 — 6,504 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 — 1,499 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 24 times as planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 944 ratings — published 1980
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,115 ratings — published 1985
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as planning)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,975 ratings — published 2017
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,091 ratings — published
A Theory of Good City Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as planning)
avg rating 4.08 — 303 ratings — published 1981
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,298 ratings — published 2022
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as planning)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,508 ratings — published 2019
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 605 ratings — published 2018
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,318 ratings — published 1969
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as planning)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,382 ratings — published 2020
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as planning)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,555 ratings — published 2018
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,456 ratings — published 1971
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,708 ratings — published 2019
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as planning)
avg rating 4.00 — 170,314 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 — 7,913 ratings — published 2020
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 749 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 — 799 ratings — published 2019
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 — 905 ratings — published 2011
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (Anchor Books)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 3.83 — 552 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 3.86 — 1,048 ratings — published 1989
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,675 ratings — published 2000
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,597 ratings — published 2021
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,163 ratings — published 2012
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 3.82 — 163 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 — 8,265 ratings — published 2008
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,904 ratings — published 1994
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,694 ratings — published 1991
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as planning)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,833 ratings — published 2023
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 — 1,600 ratings — published 2009
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as planning)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,043 ratings — published 2003
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 324 ratings — published 2014
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,054 ratings — published 1990
“I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.”
― Dauntless
― Dauntless
“So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.”
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