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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,900 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,147 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 — 2,173 ratings — published 2012
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 — 6,518 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 — 31,724 ratings — published 1974
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,070 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 — 48,689 ratings — published 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,537 ratings — published 2016
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,298 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 — 4,003 ratings — published 2017
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,859 ratings — published 2012
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,471 ratings — published 2006
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,528 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 — 1,500 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 — 4,692 ratings — published 1993
The Production of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,287 ratings — published 1974
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,321 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 — 2,262 ratings — published 1996
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,579 ratings — published 2005
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,711 ratings — published 2019
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,283 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 — 463 ratings — published 2009
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 852 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 — 2,696 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 — 679 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 3.96 — 5,607 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 — 5,571 ratings — published 1977
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 102,687 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 4.35 — 1,468 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 — 727 ratings — published 1988
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 947 ratings — published 1980
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,542 ratings — published 1992
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,909 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 — 2,270 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 3.49 — 1,366 ratings — published 2017
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 816 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,136 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 — 57,804 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 — 1,059 ratings — published 2009
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,756 ratings — published 1999
Great Streets (Mit Press)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 419 ratings — published 1993
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,617 ratings — published 1993
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 — 4,540 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 — 2,880 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 — 800 ratings — published 2019
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,710 ratings — published 1991
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,923 ratings — published 1998
“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