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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 394 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,922 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 257 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,152 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,865 ratings — published 2012
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,528 ratings — published 2010
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,519 ratings — published 2011
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,284 ratings — published 2016
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,299 ratings — published 1960
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,805 ratings — published 1974
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,697 ratings — published 1993
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,730 ratings — published 2017
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,698 ratings — published 2000
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,138 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,104 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 88 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,926 ratings — published 2023
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 86 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,574 ratings — published 1977
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,500 ratings — published 1961
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,945 ratings — published 2020
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,003 ratings — published 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,602 ratings — published 2016
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,469 ratings — published 1971
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.33 — 948 ratings — published 1980
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,604 ratings — published 2021
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.38 — 755 ratings — published 2019
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.38 — 609 ratings — published 2018
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.38 — 652 ratings — published 2021
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,322 ratings — published 1969
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,310 ratings — published 2022
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.38 — 718 ratings — published 2018
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.37 — 910 ratings — published 2011
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,610 ratings — published 2018
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,118 ratings — published 1985
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,173 ratings — published 2012
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,602 ratings — published 2009
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.24 — 800 ratings — published 2019
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,548 ratings — published 2019
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,155 ratings — published 2023
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.37 — 621 ratings — published 2020
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,015 ratings — published 2018
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,072 ratings — published 1990
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,714 ratings — published 2019
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,617 ratings — published 2025
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.46 — 551 ratings — published 2022
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.85 — 727 ratings — published 1988
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.13 — 732 ratings — published 2024
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.09 — 102,768 ratings — published 1972
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.11 — 706 ratings — published 2015
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,909 ratings — published 1994
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,472 ratings — published 2006
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 40 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,366 ratings — published 2017
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,802 ratings — published 1978
“No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity.”
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
― The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“The advantage of a big city, move on a few meters and you find solitude again.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
