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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,965 ratings — published 1961
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,956 ratings — published 1974
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,202 ratings — published 2005
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,367 ratings — published 1991
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,386 ratings — published
The Covert City: The Cold War and the Making of Miami (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.73 — 139 ratings — published 2024
Rethinking Parking (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Hidden Alleyways of Washington, DC: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.45 — 29 ratings — published
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,168 ratings — published 2012
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,620 ratings — published 2018
How Cities Can Transform Democracy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Dry Zones: Planning and the Hangovers of Liquor Licensing History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 19,375 ratings — published 1972
Color Capital of the World: Growing Up with the Legacy of Color Crayons (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.67 — 21 ratings — published
A River with a City Problem: A History of Brisbane Floods (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.24 — 174 ratings — published
Second City: Essays from Western Sydney (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 32 ratings — published
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,952 ratings — published 2020
The Fixer Upper (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.95 — 29,269 ratings — published 2009
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,317 ratings — published 2022
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.52 — 63 ratings — published 2022
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.33 — 948 ratings — published 1980
The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy that Shaped an American City (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.64 — 205 ratings — published
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 urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.46 — 1,509 ratings — published 2008
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,343 ratings — published 2021
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.13 — 390 ratings — published 2022
The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.26 — 194 ratings — published
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,366 ratings — published 2017
The New Geography of Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,799 ratings — published 2012
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,840 ratings — published 2017
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,363 ratings — published 2002
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.91 — 957 ratings — published 2021
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,900 ratings — published 2020
Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.65 — 225 ratings — published 2004
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,272 ratings — published 2016
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.12 — 707 ratings — published 2015
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,089 ratings — published 2018
Saving Central Park: A History and a Memoir (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.36 — 100 ratings — published 2018
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,288 ratings — published 2016
Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.33 — 425 ratings — published 2017
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,926 ratings — published 1998
The Fires: How a Computer Formula, Big Ideas, and the Best of Intentions Burned Down New York City-and Determined the Future of Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.08 — 295 ratings — published 2010
The King of Skid Row: John Bacich and the Twilight Years of Old Minneapolis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.24 — 122 ratings — published
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,770 ratings — published 2016
Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.09 — 149 ratings — published 2013
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.37 — 911 ratings — published 2011
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,091 ratings — published 2012
722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.81 — 390 ratings — published 1993
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,138 ratings — published 2004
The Barefoot Architect: A Handbook for Green Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 4.28 — 340 ratings — published
Inside El Barrio: A Bottom-Up View of Neighborhood Life in Castro's Cuba (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-affairs)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 2009