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Urban Policy Books
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,956 ratings — published 2016
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,776 ratings — published 1961
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,500 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,331 ratings — published 1974
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,315 ratings — published 2017
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,268 ratings — published 2016
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.77 — 308 ratings — published 2011
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,096 ratings — published 2012
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.37 — 903 ratings — published 2011
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,511 ratings — published 2010
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,085 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 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,362 ratings — published 2017
The Just City (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.76 — 176 ratings — published 2010
The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.57 — 126 ratings — published 2014
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,401 ratings — published 2014
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.04 — 852 ratings — published 2013
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,800 ratings — published 2012
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.70 — 296 ratings — published 2013
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,908 ratings — published 1998
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.11 — 846 ratings — published 2011
Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.71 — 446 ratings — published 2010
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,051 ratings — published 1990
The Architecture of Community (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 165 ratings — published 2009
Walking Home: The Life and Lessons of a City Builder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.73 — 189 ratings — published 2011
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,497 ratings — published 1961
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 419 ratings — published 1993
Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.07 — 25,989 ratings — published 2008
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,691 ratings — published 2000
A Moratorium on New Construction (Sternberg Press / Critical Spatial Practice)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.45 — 42 ratings — published
New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 56 ratings — published 2013
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,757 ratings — published 1996
How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.25 — 261 ratings — published
Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Mumbai (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.24 — 17 ratings — published 2014
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,139 ratings — published 2023
Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 45)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.89 — 116 ratings — published 2014
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,292 ratings — published 2022
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,589 ratings — published 2021
Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.82 — 99 ratings — published 2023
Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.10 — 39 ratings — published
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.79 — 585 ratings — published 2022
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,538 ratings — published 2022
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.53 — 149,280 ratings — published 2021
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,007 ratings — published 2018
Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.95 — 300 ratings — published 2023
The Fix: How Countries Use Crises to Solve the World's Worst Problems (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 3.88 — 764 ratings — published 2016
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,796 ratings — published 2020
The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.61 — 1,915 ratings — published 2019
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,848 ratings — published 2020
Justice and the American Metropolis (Globalization and Community)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-policy)
avg rating 4.23 — 13 ratings — published 2011