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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 381 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,396 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 247 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,902 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,615 ratings — published 2012
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,454 ratings — published 2011
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,235 ratings — published 2016
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,474 ratings — published 2010
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,243 ratings — published 1960
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.53 — 30,319 ratings — published 1974
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,621 ratings — published 1993
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.44 — 47,312 ratings — published 2017
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,678 ratings — published 2000
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,106 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,000 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,539 ratings — published 2023
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 80 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,501 ratings — published 1977
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,484 ratings — published 1961
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.47 — 116,240 ratings — published 2016
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.33 — 935 ratings — published 1980
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,784 ratings — published 2020
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,435 ratings — published 1971
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,899 ratings — published 2017
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.39 — 726 ratings — published 2019
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,303 ratings — published 1969
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.38 — 641 ratings — published 2021
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,236 ratings — published 2022
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,553 ratings — published 2021
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.39 — 587 ratings — published 2018
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.39 — 700 ratings — published 2018
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,423 ratings — published 2018
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.37 — 894 ratings — published 2011
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,123 ratings — published 2012
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,595 ratings — published 2009
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,090 ratings — published 1985
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,378 ratings — published 2019
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.24 — 791 ratings — published 2019
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.37 — 611 ratings — published 2020
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.02 — 991 ratings — published 2018
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 48 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,971 ratings — published 1990
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,681 ratings — published 2019
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,099 ratings — published 2023
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.84 — 721 ratings — published 1988
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.12 — 651 ratings — published 2024
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.45 — 509 ratings — published 2022
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,641 ratings — published 1972
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.12 — 695 ratings — published 2015
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,427 ratings — published 2006
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,750 ratings — published 1978
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,889 ratings — published 1994
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 37 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,359 ratings — published 2017
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.11 — 842 ratings — published 2011
“Everyone is aware that tremendous numbers of people concentrate in city downtowns and that, if they did not, there would be no downtown to amount to anything--certainly not one with much downtown diversity.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Every neighborhood must be allowed to grow and change... The reality is that a place that is not changing is dying.”
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