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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,655 ratings — published 1961
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,147 ratings — published 2012
Cities for People, Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory and the Right to the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-theory)
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 3 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.85 — 723 ratings — published 1988
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 800 ratings — published 2016
The Urban Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 387 ratings — published 1970
Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 543 ratings — published 2001
Explanation in Geography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.65 — 20 ratings — published 1983
The New Urban Question (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.48 — 52 ratings — published 2014
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,703 ratings — published 2019
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,495 ratings — published 2010
Uneven Development: Nature, Capital and the Production of Space (Ideas)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 225 ratings — published 1984
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,270 ratings — published 1960
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,049 ratings — published 2017
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,667 ratings — published 1991
A City is Not a Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.22 — 86 ratings — published 1965
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,482 ratings — published 2011
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,311 ratings — published 1969
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,648 ratings — published 1972
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,776 ratings — published 1978
Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.79 — 175 ratings — published 2009
Searching for the Just City (Questioning Cities)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 21 ratings — published 2009
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,447 ratings — published 2006
New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of Statehood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 29 ratings — published 2004
Cities: Reimagining the Urban (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.47 — 51 ratings — published 2002
The Production of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,274 ratings — published 1974
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 460 ratings — published 2009
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.33 — 940 ratings — published 1980
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (Anchor Books)
by (shelved 2 times as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.83 — 552 ratings — published 1991
Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 374 ratings — published 2025
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 38,061 ratings — published 1975
Arquitectura y política. Ensayos para mundos alternativos (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 127 ratings — published 2011
Of Other Spaces, Heterotopias (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 701 ratings — published 1967
The Feminist Art of Walking (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 35 ratings — published
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,410 ratings — published 2025
If You Want to Win, You've Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.96 — 23 ratings — published
The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 129 ratings — published 2005
City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.13 — 829 ratings — published 2024
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 32,329 ratings — published 1933
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,547 ratings — published 1957
A History of Building Types (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 45 ratings — published 1976
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 768 ratings — published 1965
The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,345 ratings — published 1966
Why is Landscape Beautiful?: The Science of Strollology (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 3.52 — 23 ratings — published 2006
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.11 — 693 ratings — published 2024
Women Changing Cities: Global stories of urban transformation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 16 ratings — published
Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,274 ratings — published 2023
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.20 — 381 ratings — published 2023
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as urban-theory)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,726 ratings — published 2023