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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 375 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,226 ratings — published 1961
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 246 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,818 ratings — published 2012
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 235 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,529 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 3.92 — 6,431 ratings — published 2011
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,227 ratings — published 1960
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,450 ratings — published 2010
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,222 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 — 29,800 ratings — published 1974
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,607 ratings — published 1993
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.44 — 46,807 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 — 2,669 ratings — published 2000
The High Cost of Free Parking (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,092 ratings — published 2004
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,965 ratings — published
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 79 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,481 ratings — published 1977
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,485 ratings — published 1961
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,409 ratings — published 2023
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.47 — 115,359 ratings — published 2016
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.33 — 927 ratings — published 1980
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,424 ratings — published 1971
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.03 — 7,694 ratings — published 2020
Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.38 — 634 ratings — published 2021
Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.39 — 710 ratings — published 2019
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,858 ratings — published 2017
Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,526 ratings — published 2021
Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,201 ratings — published 2022
The Economy of Cities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,294 ratings — published 1969
Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.39 — 582 ratings — published 2018
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.39 — 690 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 — 5,365 ratings — published 2018
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.38 — 890 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 — 2,112 ratings — published 2012
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,087 ratings — published 1985
Feminist City: A Field Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,326 ratings — published 2019
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.24 — 786 ratings — published 2019
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,591 ratings — published 2009
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.02 — 982 ratings — published 2018
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,917 ratings — published 1990
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.37 — 604 ratings — published 2020
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as urbanism)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,673 ratings — published 2019
Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,078 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 — 718 ratings — published 1988
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.09 — 98,687 ratings — published 1972
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.13 — 622 ratings — published 2024
Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.45 — 492 ratings — published 2022
Planet of Slums (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,402 ratings — published 2006
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,734 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 — 696 ratings — published 2015
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 3.49 — 1,357 ratings — published 2017
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,884 ratings — published 1994
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as urbanism)
avg rating 4.11 — 842 ratings — published 2011
“The advantage of a big city, move on a few meters and you find solitude again.”
― Foucault’s Pendulum
― Foucault’s Pendulum
“O meu despacho no processo foi lacônico, mas decisivo: "à Secretaria de Obras, não fazer nada, com urgência". Às vezes, na vida de uma cidade ameaçada por decisões que podem prejudica-la, é necessário não fazer nada, com urgência.”
― Urban Acupuncture
― Urban Acupuncture
