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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 388 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,755 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,082 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 245 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,779 ratings — published 2012
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.91 — 6,495 ratings — published 2011
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 132 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,508 ratings — published 2010
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,266 ratings — published 2016
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,285 ratings — published 1960
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,248 ratings — published 1974
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,664 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 — 48,237 ratings — published 2017
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,690 ratings — published 2000
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,130 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,082 ratings — published
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,792 ratings — published 2023
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 84 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,548 ratings — published 1977
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,495 ratings — published 1961
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,858 ratings — published 2016
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,453 ratings — published 1971
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,962 ratings — published 2017
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.33 — 941 ratings — published 1980
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,895 ratings — published 2020
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.38 — 746 ratings — published 2019
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,588 ratings — published 2021
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,316 ratings — published 1969
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.38 — 603 ratings — published 2018
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,291 ratings — published 2022
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.38 — 652 ratings — published 2021
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.39 — 716 ratings — published 2018
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,530 ratings — published 2018
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.37 — 903 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 — 2,156 ratings — published 2012
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,599 ratings — published 2009
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,108 ratings — published 1985
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,498 ratings — published 2019
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.24 — 798 ratings — published 2019
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,704 ratings — published 2019
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,006 ratings — published 2018
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Vintage)
by (shelved 50 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,046 ratings — published 1990
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,134 ratings — published 2023
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 — 619 ratings — published 2020
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 — 725 ratings — published 1988
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.46 — 538 ratings — published 2022
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.11 — 698 ratings — published 2024
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.09 — 101,624 ratings — published 1972
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,486 ratings — published 2025
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.12 — 704 ratings — published 2015
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,903 ratings — published 1994
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,455 ratings — published 2006
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,783 ratings — published 1978
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 39 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,361 ratings — published 2017
“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
“Urban and untamed, Mexico City possesses a raw vitality; it is a city where the poetic is found in the most unexpected places.”
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