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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,215 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,813 ratings — published 2012
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,111 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 — 29,782 ratings — published 1974
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,306 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 3.92 — 6,431 ratings — published 2011
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,225 ratings — published 1960
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,916 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 — 46,788 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 4.07 — 3,858 ratings — published 2017
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,524 ratings — published 2012
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,400 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 — 1,485 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 — 4,607 ratings — published 1993
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,447 ratings — published 2010
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,294 ratings — published 1969
The Works: Anatomy of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,572 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 — 2,239 ratings — published 1996
The Production of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,251 ratings — published 1974
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,221 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 — 457 ratings — published 2009
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,671 ratings — published 2019
A History of Future Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 845 ratings — published 2013
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 669 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 — 5,364 ratings — published 2018
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,668 ratings — published 2000
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 18 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,480 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 — 3,355 ratings — published 2002
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,424 ratings — published 1971
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 926 ratings — published 1980
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 98,637 ratings — published 1972
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,500 ratings — published 1992
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 4.23 — 60 ratings — published 2011
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.84 — 718 ratings — published 1988
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,405 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 — 2,179 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 — 1,356 ratings — published 2017
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.63 — 650 ratings — published 2016
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 775 ratings — published 2016
The Ghost Map (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,725 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 — 1,041 ratings — published 2009
Sidewalk (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,733 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 — 160 ratings — published 1996
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,431 ratings — published 2021
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,738 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 — 786 ratings — published 2019
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,614 ratings — published 1991
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,092 ratings — published 2004
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as urban-studies)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,860 ratings — published 1998
“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
“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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