Urban Studies for Everyone (nonfiction)

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 4.29 avg rating — 19,189 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,940 ratings
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Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities
Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Urban Mystique: Notes on California, Los Angeles, and Beyond
The Urban Mystique: Notes on California, Los Angeles, and Beyond 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier 3.92 avg rating — 6,284 ratings
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time 4.32 avg rating — 8,339 ratings
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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) 4.42 avg rating — 5,326 ratings
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream 4.12 avg rating — 2,640 ratings
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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood 4.09 avg rating — 3,603 ratings
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Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing 4.30 avg rating — 306 ratings
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Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less are the Keys to Sustainability 3.72 avg rating — 1,560 ratings
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Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance 4.23 avg rating — 141 ratings
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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape 4.05 avg rating — 4,482 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York 4.52 avg rating — 27,075 ratings
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America 4.44 avg rating — 44,181 ratings
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The Economy of Cities
The Economy of Cities 4.09 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
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Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State 3.92 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution 3.92 avg rating — 2,039 ratings
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life
Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life 4.10 avg rating — 650 ratings
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
The Works: Anatomy of a City 4.10 avg rating — 1,547 ratings
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Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape
Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape 3.82 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street
Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Pimp Guide: Secrets of Mind Manipulation (The Pimp Game Book 2)
The Pimp Guide: Secrets of Mind Manipulation (The Pimp Game Book 2) 3.60 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile 4.10 avg rating — 841 ratings
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101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School
101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School 4.26 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities 3.81 avg rating — 270 ratings
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Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis
Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis 4.11 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Image of the City
The Image of the City 4.05 avg rating — 4,121 ratings
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Home Improvement
Home Improvement
by: Jacobin
4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity 4.27 avg rating — 2,701 ratings
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More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City 3.74 avg rating — 531 ratings
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Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. 4.11 avg rating — 149 ratings
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New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy
New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy 4.30 avg rating — 53 ratings
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The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos 3.83 avg rating — 156 ratings
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 4.21 avg rating — 4,679 ratings
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Transit Maps Of The World
Transit Maps Of The World 4.25 avg rating — 855 ratings
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Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind
Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind 3.38 avg rating — 254 ratings
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The Rent Trap: How We Fell into It and How We Get Out of It (Left Book Club)
The Rent Trap: How We Fell into It and How We Get Out of It (Left Book Club) 4.05 avg rating — 88 ratings
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A History of Future Cities
A History of Future Cities 4.04 avg rating — 838 ratings
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What the River Reveals: Understanding and Restoring Healthy Watersheds
What the River Reveals: Understanding and Restoring Healthy Watersheds 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia 3.60 avg rating — 806 ratings
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When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century
When the Rivers Run Dry: Water - The Defining Crisis of the Twenty-first Century 3.98 avg rating — 1,045 ratings
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design 4.36 avg rating — 8,993 ratings
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Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis 3.84 avg rating — 371 ratings
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The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City
The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City 4.26 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer
Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer 3.97 avg rating — 10,356 ratings
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit 4.24 avg rating — 2,199 ratings
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Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era
Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era 4.09 avg rating — 32 ratings
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When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor
When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor 3.87 avg rating — 712 ratings
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A Burglar's Guide to the City
A Burglar's Guide to the City 3.36 avg rating — 3,569 ratings
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Planet of Slums
Planet of Slums really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,286 ratings
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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities 4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School 4.08 avg rating — 5,653 ratings
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The Great Rent Wars: New York, 1917-1929
The Great Rent Wars: New York, 1917-1929 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder 3.86 avg rating — 5,445 ratings
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Cities for People
Cities for People
by: Jan Gehl
4.35 avg rating — 2,335 ratings
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Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City
Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City 3.99 avg rating — 74 ratings
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The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited
The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited 3.68 avg rating — 3,329 ratings
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects 4.10 avg rating — 1,453 ratings
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Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution 4.10 avg rating — 2,087 ratings
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The Production of Space
The Production of Space 4.16 avg rating — 2,207 ratings
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If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities 3.10 avg rating — 357 ratings
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All That Is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster
All That Is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster 3.54 avg rating — 143 ratings
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In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis 4.04 avg rating — 725 ratings
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Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism
Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism 3.79 avg rating — 167 ratings