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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as planning)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,972 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 — 9,171 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,889 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 4.43 — 48,872 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 — 31,999 ratings — published 1974
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,305 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 — 4,704 ratings — published 1993
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,537 ratings — published 2010
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 36 times as planning)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,590 ratings — published 1977
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as planning)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,139 ratings — published 2004
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,822 ratings — published 2016
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,288 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 — 2,698 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 — 728 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 — 6,527 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 — 1,503 ratings — published 1961
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 651 ratings — published 1969
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 24 times as planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 420 ratings — published 1993
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 949 ratings — published 1980
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,117 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 4.06 — 4,013 ratings — published 2017
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,110 ratings — published
A Theory of Good City Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as planning)
avg rating 4.08 — 305 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 — 1,317 ratings — published 2022
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as planning)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,569 ratings — published 2019
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 610 ratings — published 2018
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,327 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 — 9,418 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 3.96 — 5,624 ratings — published 2018
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,469 ratings — published 1971
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 756 ratings — published 2019
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,717 ratings — published 2019
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as planning)
avg rating 4.00 — 170,859 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 — 7,954 ratings — published 2020
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 — 802 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 — 911 ratings — published 2011
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (Anchor Books)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 3.83 — 554 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 — 1,057 ratings — published 1989
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as planning)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,767 ratings — published 2000
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,609 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 — 2,176 ratings — published 2012
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 3.83 — 164 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 — 8,280 ratings — published 2008
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,910 ratings — published 1994
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,724 ratings — published 1991
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as planning)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,958 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 — 1,601 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 — 785,347 ratings — published 2003
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 325 ratings — published 2014
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,082 ratings — published 1990
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