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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,761 ratings — published 1961
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,784 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,087 ratings — published 2012
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,284 ratings — published 1960
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 34 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,551 ratings — published 1977
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,510 ratings — published 2010
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 746 ratings — published 2019
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,130 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,084 ratings — published
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.33 — 941 ratings — published 1980
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,266 ratings — published 2016
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,691 ratings — published 2000
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.39 — 716 ratings — published 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,266 ratings — published 2017
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.31 — 419 ratings — published 1993
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,667 ratings — published 1993
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,454 ratings — published 1971
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,895 ratings — published 2020
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,281 ratings — published 1974
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,496 ratings — published 2011
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,798 ratings — published 2023
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.62 — 661 ratings — published 2016
How to Study Public Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 393 ratings — published 2013
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,496 ratings — published 1961
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 798 ratings — published 2019
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.82 — 162 ratings — published 2008
Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.93 — 193 ratings — published 2007
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 845 ratings — published 2011
A Theory of Good City Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.08 — 303 ratings — published 1981
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 652 ratings — published 2021
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.12 — 704 ratings — published 2015
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.37 — 903 ratings — published 2011
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.26 — 650 ratings — published 1969
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,736 ratings — published 1978
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,316 ratings — published 1969
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.85 — 725 ratings — published 1988
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,577 ratings — published 2005
Design of Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.04 — 273 ratings — published 1967
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.46 — 538 ratings — published 2022
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,599 ratings — published 2009
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,291 ratings — published 2022
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,589 ratings — published 2021
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,532 ratings — published 2018
Urban Street Design Guide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.53 — 74 ratings — published 2013
The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.24 — 368 ratings — published 1991
A New Theory of Urban Design (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 8 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.16 — 244 ratings — published 1987
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,840 ratings — published 2020
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,498 ratings — published 2019
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,891 ratings — published 2016
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as urban-design)
avg rating 4.38 — 604 ratings — published 2018
“Today, one marvels at the conversions of old buildings that are now offices and and residences or both. Office buildings are apartment houses, mansions are office buildings, manufacturing lofts are apartments, tenement apartments are small factories, everything from a barge to a barn is a restaurant...These buildings were not designed with flexibility in mind, but their manageable scale provided inherent adjustability and their design and quality constriction provided inherent appeal.”
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“True enough, we need an environment which is not simply well organized, but poetic and symbolic as well... By appearing as a remarkable and well-knit place, the city could provide a ground for the clustering and organization of these meanings and associations. Such a sense of place in itself enhances every human activity that occurs there, and encourages the deposit of a memory trace.”
― The image of the city
― The image of the city
