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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,740 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 — 9,080 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 — 2,153 ratings — published 2012
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,783 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 — 6,492 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 — 31,208 ratings — published 1974
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 47 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,040 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 — 48,191 ratings — published 2017
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,282 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 4.07 — 3,958 ratings — published 2017
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,771 ratings — published 2012
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,454 ratings — published 2006
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,506 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 — 1,494 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 — 4,659 ratings — published 1993
The Production of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,275 ratings — published 1974
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,314 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 — 2,255 ratings — published 1996
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,577 ratings — published 2005
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,703 ratings — published 2019
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,265 ratings — published 2016
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 460 ratings — published 2009
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 851 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 — 2,689 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 — 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 3.97 — 5,526 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 — 5,543 ratings — published 1977
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 101,532 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 — 3,360 ratings — published 2002
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,453 ratings — published 1971
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 940 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 — 1,533 ratings — published 1992
Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 61 ratings — published 2011
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 3.85 — 724 ratings — published 1988
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,781 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 — 2,250 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 — 1,360 ratings — published 2017
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 807 ratings — published 2016
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,127 ratings — published 2004
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 57,520 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 — 1,055 ratings — published 2009
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,747 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 — 1,616 ratings — published 1993
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.25 — 164 ratings — published 1996
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,832 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 — 798 ratings — published 2019
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,680 ratings — published 1991
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,905 ratings — published 1998
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 — 16,309 ratings — published 1991
“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