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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 509 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,928 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 383 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,157 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 325 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,869 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 — 48,749 ratings — published 2017
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 179 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,299 ratings — published 1960
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 171 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,828 ratings — published 1974
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,697 ratings — published 1993
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,530 ratings — published 2010
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,698 ratings — published 2000
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,138 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,284 ratings — published 2016
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,520 ratings — published 2011
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 123 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,574 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 — 4,004 ratings — published 2017
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,105 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 103 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,928 ratings — published 2023
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,632 ratings — published 2016
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 89 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,604 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 — 1,500 ratings — published 1961
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,947 ratings — published 2020
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 947 ratings — published 1980
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 — 706 ratings — published 2015
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.37 — 910 ratings — published 2011
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 755 ratings — published 2019
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 718 ratings — published 2018
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 — 800 ratings — published 2019
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,322 ratings — published 1969
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,118 ratings — published 1985
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,611 ratings — published 2018
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,469 ratings — published 1971
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.85 — 727 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 4.12 — 1,310 ratings — published 2022
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
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,715 ratings — published 2019
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,579 ratings — published 2005
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 652 ratings — published 2021
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 609 ratings — published 2018
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 58 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 419 ratings — published 1993
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,552 ratings — published 2019
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.11 — 846 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 — 8,279 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 — 621 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 3.49 — 1,367 ratings — published 2017
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 651 ratings — published 1969
The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,056 ratings — published 1989
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,060 ratings — published 2009
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 393 ratings — published 2023
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.62 — 662 ratings — published 2016
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 324 ratings — published 2014
Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 723 ratings — published 2018
“[Denial] contorts our physical geography, as we build infrastructure—suburbs, highways, private schools, and prisons—that allow the professional middle-class to actively avoid sharing the lives of poor and working-class people.”
― Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
― Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
“Henceforth the crisis of urbanism is all the more concretely a social and political one, even though today no force born of traditional politics is any longer capable of dealing with it. Medico-sociological banalities on the 'pathology of housing projects,' the emotional isolation of people who must live in them, or the development of certain extreme reactions of rejection, chiefly among youth, simply betray the fact that modern capitalism, the bureaucratic society of consumption, is here and there beginning to shape its own setting. This society, with its new towns, is building the terrain that accurately represents it, combining the conditions most suitable for its proper functioning, while at the same time translating in space, in the clear language of organization of everyday life, its fundamental principle of alienation and constraint. It is likewise here that the new aspects of its crisis will be manifested with the greatest clarity.”
― The Situationists and the City: A Reader
― The Situationists and the City: A Reader
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city-planning, town-planning, urban-development, and urban-policy