Sign in with Facebook
115 books
—
158 voters
Urban Studies Books
Showing 1-50 of 4,268
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,540 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 8,985 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 — 2,138 ratings — published 2012
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,717 ratings — published 1974
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,011 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 — 47,732 ratings — published 2017
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,471 ratings — published 2011
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,951 ratings — published 2016
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,260 ratings — published 1960
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,931 ratings — published 2017
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,689 ratings — published 2012
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,433 ratings — published 2006
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,490 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 4.04 — 4,642 ratings — published 1993
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,487 ratings — published 2010
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,308 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 — 2,251 ratings — published 1996
The Production of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,268 ratings — published 1974
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,578 ratings — published 2005
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,698 ratings — published 2019
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,251 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 — 459 ratings — published 2009
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 850 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 — 2,685 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 4.11 — 678 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 — 5,465 ratings — published 2018
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,513 ratings — published 1977
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 — 3,358 ratings — published 2002
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,446 ratings — published 1971
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 937 ratings — published 1980
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 100,450 ratings — published 1972
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,517 ratings — published 1992
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.84 — 722 ratings — published 1988
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 4.25 — 61 ratings — published 2011
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,630 ratings — published 2023
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,220 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 — 1,357 ratings — published 2017
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 794 ratings — published 2016
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,224 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 3.93 — 1,052 ratings — published 2009
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,741 ratings — published 1999
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 418 ratings — published 1993
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,613 ratings — published 1993
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 163 ratings — published 1996
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,809 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 — 793 ratings — published 2019
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,651 ratings — published 1991
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,115 ratings — published 2004
There are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 16,277 ratings — published 1991
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,764 ratings — published 1978
“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
“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
