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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 514 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,074 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 385 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,207 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 327 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,937 ratings — published 2012
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 194 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,205 ratings — published 2017
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,321 ratings — published 1960
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.53 — 32,455 ratings — published 1974
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,712 ratings — published 1993
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,546 ratings — published 2010
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,702 ratings — published 2000
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,146 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,295 ratings — published 2016
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,546 ratings — published 2011
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 125 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,604 ratings — published 1977
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,032 ratings — published 2017
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,130 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,021 ratings — published 2023
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,281 ratings — published 2016
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 88 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,619 ratings — published 2021
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,504 ratings — published 1961
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,982 ratings — published 2020
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 951 ratings — published 1980
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 914 ratings — published 2011
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 707 ratings — published 2015
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 765 ratings — published 2019
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 722 ratings — published 2018
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,332 ratings — published 1969
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.24 — 803 ratings — published 2019
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,648 ratings — published 2018
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,122 ratings — published 1985
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,482 ratings — published 1971
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.85 — 729 ratings — published 1988
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,331 ratings — published 2022
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,722 ratings — published 2019
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,601 ratings — published 2009
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,584 ratings — published 2005
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 610 ratings — published 2018
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 660 ratings — published 2021
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,602 ratings — published 2019
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 59 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 420 ratings — published 1993
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.11 — 848 ratings — published 2011
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.72 — 8,292 ratings — published 2008
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 624 ratings — published 2020
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 47 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,365 ratings — published 2017
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,060 ratings — published 1989
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 651 ratings — published 1969
The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,930 ratings — published 2026
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.87 — 58,019 ratings — published 2025
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,063 ratings — published 2009
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.20 — 397 ratings — published 2023
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.62 — 665 ratings — published 2016
“At Mayflower-Plymouth, we treat municipal bond holding as both a path to profit and an investment into social progress.”
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“Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.”
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
― Wanderlust: A History of Walking
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city-planning, town-planning, urban-development, and urban-policy