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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,807 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,620 ratings — published 2012
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,180 ratings — published 1960
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,085 ratings — published 2012
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 28,741 ratings — published 1974
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,177 ratings — published 2016
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,377 ratings — published 2011
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,843 ratings — published 1990
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.44 — 45,635 ratings — published 2017
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,769 ratings — published 2017
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,305 ratings — published 2012
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,347 ratings — published 2006
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,399 ratings — published 2010
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,468 ratings — published 1961
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,568 ratings — published 1993
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,276 ratings — published 1969
The Production of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,234 ratings — published 1974
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,563 ratings — published 2005
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,221 ratings — published 1996
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 452 ratings — published 2009
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,181 ratings — published 2016
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,650 ratings — published 2019
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 844 ratings — published 2013
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,653 ratings — published 2000
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 661 ratings — published 1984
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,286 ratings — published 2018
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 912 ratings — published 1980
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,421 ratings — published 1977
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,481 ratings — published 1992
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,349 ratings — published 2002
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,381 ratings — published 1971
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 96,593 ratings — published 1972
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.63 — 640 ratings — published 2016
Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 58 ratings — published 2011
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,130 ratings — published 2018
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 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,347 ratings — published 2017
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 754 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,064 ratings — published 2004
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.84 — 716 ratings — published 1988
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,021 ratings — published 2009
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,715 ratings — published 1999
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,609 ratings — published 1993
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 157 ratings — published 1996
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,117 ratings — published 2023
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,318 ratings — published 2021
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,649 ratings — published 2020
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 773 ratings — published 2019
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,572 ratings — published 1991
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,822 ratings — published 1998
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,060 ratings — published 2006
“Three requirements are needed to achieve a compassionate city: a realization of the seriousness of the problems that people face; an appreciation that these are not self-inflicted; and the ability to imagine ourselves in the lives of others. The problems of rising inequality are serious. And while cultures of poverty do occur, they are responses to poverty, not the cause. It is the third requirement that prompts an imaginative creativity, a moral economy not just a market economy and a more expansive and emphatetic consideration of the city. Above all a compassionate city requires a collective imagination to see the city as a shared community, to realize the shared nature of our fate and to embrace the liberating sense that we can remake the city and indeed the world.”
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“In the urban environment literacy is almost as much a necessity as speech itself.”
― The City: Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment
― The City: Suggestions for Investigation of Human Behavior in the Urban Environment
