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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,051 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,200 ratings — published 2012
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,181 ratings — published 2012
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 119,193 ratings — published 2016
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,542 ratings — published 2011
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 32,390 ratings — published 1974
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,116 ratings — published 1990
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.43 — 49,139 ratings — published 2017
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,319 ratings — published 1960
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,031 ratings — published 2017
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,937 ratings — published 2012
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,488 ratings — published 2006
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,546 ratings — published 2010
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,504 ratings — published 1961
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,712 ratings — published 1993
The Production of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,297 ratings — published 1974
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,330 ratings — published 1969
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,264 ratings — published 1996
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,584 ratings — published 2005
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,721 ratings — published 2019
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,295 ratings — published 2016
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.76 — 465 ratings — published 2009
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,643 ratings — published 2018
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 853 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 — 2,702 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 — 684 ratings — published 1984
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,601 ratings — published 1977
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 951 ratings — published 1980
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 103,646 ratings — published 1972
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 — 3,364 ratings — published 2002
Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.27 — 63 ratings — published 2011
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,481 ratings — published 1971
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.85 — 729 ratings — published 1988
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,554 ratings — published 1992
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,006 ratings — published 2023
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,291 ratings — published 2018
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 833 ratings — published 2016
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 — 1,365 ratings — published 2017
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,145 ratings — published 2004
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 58,128 ratings — published 2006
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 — 1,063 ratings — published 2009
There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,398 ratings — published 1991
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,765 ratings — published 1999
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 420 ratings — published 1993
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,618 ratings — published 1993
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,122 ratings — published 1985
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 166 ratings — published 1996
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,594 ratings — published 2019
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,917 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 — 803 ratings — published 2019
“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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“It was in the nature of those who had long dreamt of Pacific empire to stress the optimism with which George Berkeley opened his quatrain. Few pondered the line with which he closed it:
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The first four acts already past.
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offspring is its last.”
― Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin
Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The first four acts already past.
A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offspring is its last.”
― Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin