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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 371 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,837 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 240 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,635 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 231 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,322 ratings — published 2012
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,381 ratings — published 2011
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,402 ratings — published 2010
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,183 ratings — published 1960
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,190 ratings — published 2016
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.53 — 28,845 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 4.05 — 4,572 ratings — published 1993
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.44 — 45,715 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 — 2,655 ratings — published 2000
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,067 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,882 ratings — published
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,469 ratings — published 1961
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,323 ratings — published 2016
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 75 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,430 ratings — published 1977
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,133 ratings — published 2023
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,386 ratings — published 1971
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.33 — 913 ratings — published 1980
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.39 — 625 ratings — published 2021
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,555 ratings — published 2020
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,771 ratings — published 2017
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,166 ratings — published 2022
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.39 — 682 ratings — published 2019
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,277 ratings — published 1969
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.39 — 567 ratings — published 2018
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,477 ratings — published 2021
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.39 — 674 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 — 880 ratings — published 2011
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,291 ratings — published 2018
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,089 ratings — published 2012
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,077 ratings — published 1985
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,200 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 — 774 ratings — published 2019
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,584 ratings — published 2009
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.38 — 598 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,653 ratings — published 2019
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.02 — 961 ratings — published 2018
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,847 ratings — published 1990
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.84 — 716 ratings — published 1988
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.10 — 96,756 ratings — published 1972
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,019 ratings — published 2023
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,349 ratings — published 2006
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,669 ratings — published 1978
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.12 — 694 ratings — published 2015
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.44 — 453 ratings — published 2022
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 — 1,347 ratings — published 2017
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.10 — 839 ratings — published 2011
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.15 — 536 ratings — published 2024
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 34 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.15 — 191 ratings — published 2008
“The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.”
― The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
― The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community
“The pedestrian is an extremely fragile species, the canary in the coal mine of urban livability. Under the right conditions, this creature thrives and multiplies. But creating those conditions requires attention to a broad range of criteria, some more easily satisfied than others.”
― Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
― Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
