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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 — 9,189 ratings — published 2012
A Right to Housing? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 31 ratings — published
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 464 ratings — published 2009
The Shoup Doctrine: Essays Celebrating Donald Shoup and Parking Reforms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published
Meet Me at the Library: A Place to Foster Social Connection and Promote Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 157 ratings — published
All-American City: Bluster, Boom, and Bust in Wichita (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,721 ratings — published 2025
Sacred Resistance: Eco-Activism and the Rise of New Spiritual Communities (Ecology and Justice Series)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 23 ratings — published 2009
The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
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avg rating 4.41 — 16 ratings — published
Cities without Suburbs (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.42 — 64 ratings — published 1993
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 881 ratings — published 2024
Interior Design Since 1900 (World of Art)
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avg rating 4.17 — 69 ratings — published 2008
From Urbanization to Cities: The Politics of Democratic Municipalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 54 ratings — published 1996
Living with Buildings: Health & Architecture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.20 — 149 ratings — published 2018
Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 258 ratings — published 2024
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,324 ratings — published 2022
Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 722 ratings — published 2018
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,026 ratings — published 2017
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,293 ratings — published 2016
Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.51 — 35 ratings — published
Painting the Streets: Oakland Uprising in the Time of Rebellion (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 32 ratings — published
Restored Ohio: History Brought Back to Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published
Transforming Cincinnati: How a Decade of ArtWorks Murals Changed People and Communities Forever (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published
Walking Cincinnati: 32 Tours Exploring Historic Neighborhoods, Stunning Riverfront Quarters, and Hidden Treasures in the Queen City (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 28 ratings — published 2014
Brutalist Plants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 49 ratings — published
![[By Ruth Peltason] Architect: The Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own Words-[Hardcover] Best selling book for |Architecture Project Planning & Management|](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1699663706l/195002000._SX50_.jpg)
[By Ruth Peltason] Architect: The Pritzker Prize Laureates in Their Own Words-[Hardcover] Best selling book for |Architecture Project Planning & Management| (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Paris Moderne: 1914-1945 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Spectacular Science of Buildings: From ancient wonders to modern megastructures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published
Secret Life of the City: How Nature Thrives in the Urban Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as public-spaces)
avg rating 3.88 — 160 ratings — published 2021
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 594 ratings — published 2022
Cincinnati's Lost Architects: Joseph and Bernard Steinkamp (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Inside: At Home with Great Designers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.43 — 14 ratings — published
The Story of Architecture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 34 ratings — published
Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 91 ratings — published
The Power of Architecture: 25 Modern Buildings from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published
Revaluing Modern Architecture: Changing conservation culture (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Brutalism Reinvented (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 10 ratings — published
Modern Heritage: Reuse, Renovation and Restoration (ebook)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Cathedrals: Masterpieces of Architecture, Feats of Engineering, Icons of Faith (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 25 ratings — published
Atlas of Interior Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published
Parks of the 21st Century: Reinvented Landscapes, Reclaimed Territories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
Evergreen Architecture: Overgrown Buldings and Greener Living (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 12 ratings — published
By Design: The World's Best Contemporary Interior Designers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.29 — 7 ratings — published
Radical Architecture of the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 20 ratings — published 2021
Designing Disorder: Experiments and Disruptions in the City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.51 — 231 ratings — published 2020
The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 1,027 ratings — published 2020
“If I want religion, I know where to look for it - and if for example I don't want it, then why should it be forced on me in media and public spaces?”
― Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1
― Blachart: Galaxii Series Book 1
“And besides, libraries aren't just about books. They are one of the few public spaces we have left which don't like our wallets more than us.”
― Notes on a Nervous Planet
― Notes on a Nervous Planet