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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 508 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,761 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 380 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,087 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 326 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,784 ratings — published 2012
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,267 ratings — published 2017
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,284 ratings — published 1960
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,281 ratings — published 1974
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,667 ratings — published 1993
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,510 ratings — published 2010
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,691 ratings — published 2000
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,130 ratings — published 2004
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,266 ratings — published 2016
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,496 ratings — published 2011
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 124 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,551 ratings — published 1977
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,964 ratings — published 2017
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,085 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 102 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,799 ratings — published 2023
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,891 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 — 1,589 ratings — published 2021
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,496 ratings — published 1961
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.33 — 941 ratings — published 1980
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,895 ratings — published 2020
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 — 903 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 — 704 ratings — published 2015
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 746 ratings — published 2019
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.39 — 716 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 — 798 ratings — published 2019
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,109 ratings — published 1985
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,316 ratings — published 1969
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 3.97 — 5,532 ratings — published 2018
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,454 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 — 725 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 — 1,291 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 — 1,599 ratings — published 2009
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,577 ratings — published 2005
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,705 ratings — published 2019
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 58 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.38 — 604 ratings — published 2018
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,498 ratings — published 2019
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 58 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.31 — 419 ratings — published 1993
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.11 — 845 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 — 8,258 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 — 619 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 — 1,361 ratings — published 2017
Design With Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.26 — 650 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 — 1,044 ratings — published 1989
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.62 — 661 ratings — published 2016
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 — 1,055 ratings — published 2009
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.21 — 385 ratings — published 2023
Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 3.98 — 323 ratings — published 2014
Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as urban-planning)
avg rating 4.13 — 718 ratings — published 2018
“...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“To increase density in a rat population and maintain healthy specimens, put them in boxes so they can't see each other, clean their cages, and give them enough to eat. You can pile the boxes up as many stories as you wish. Unfortunately, caged animals become stupid, which is a very heavy price to pay for a super filing system!”
― The Hidden Dimension
― The Hidden Dimension
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city-planning, town-planning, urban-development, and urban-policy