American Housing and Land Use-related (nonfiction)

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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership 4.26 avg rating — 1,258 ratings
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A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida 4.23 avg rating — 145 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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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism 4.30 avg rating — 1,955 ratings
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America 4.07 avg rating — 2,697 ratings
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One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger 3.87 avg rating — 2,475 ratings
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Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface
Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface 3.83 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing 3.51 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul 4.19 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism 4.27 avg rating — 1,015 ratings
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The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950
The Culture of Property: Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World 4.18 avg rating — 4,916 ratings
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Lenders & Landlords : A Guide To Tenant Organizing In Financially Distressed Housing
Lenders & Landlords : A Guide To Tenant Organizing In Financially Distressed Housing it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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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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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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Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts
Folk Housing in Middle Virginia: A Structural Analysis of Historic Artifacts really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings
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A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There 4.31 avg rating — 35,158 ratings
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The New Suburban History
The New Suburban History 3.63 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Profits and Politics in Paradise: The Development of Hilton Head Island
Profits and Politics in Paradise: The Development of Hilton Head Island 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North 4.09 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Fire the Landscaper: How Landscapers, HOAs, and Cultural Norms Are Poisoning Our Properties (Thought-Provoking Nonfiction)
Fire the Landscaper: How Landscapers, HOAs, and Cultural Norms Are Poisoning Our Properties (Thought-Provoking Nonfiction) 4.24 avg rating — 91 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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Grand Canyon For Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
Grand Canyon For Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change 3.97 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs
The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs 3.20 avg rating — 531 ratings
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The Florida Land Boom of the 1920s
The Florida Land Boom of the 1920s 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City
Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City 3.85 avg rating — 340 ratings
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Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases
Proving Grounds: Militarized Landscapes, Weapons Testing, and the Environmental Impact of U.S. Bases 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Rats, Riots, and Revolution: Black Housing in the 1960s
Rats, Riots, and Revolution: Black Housing in the 1960s it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab 3.93 avg rating — 1,828 ratings
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation 4.03 avg rating — 2,070 ratings
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Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution 4.21 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
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Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness
Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap 4.47 avg rating — 2,300 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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Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) 3.69 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939
Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939 4.06 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Mortgage Matters: Demystifying the Loan Approval Maze
Mortgage Matters: Demystifying the Loan Approval Maze 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape
The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape 3.31 avg rating — 35 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 Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea
The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea 3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings
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A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing 4.13 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Sticks and Stones
Sticks and Stones 3.94 avg rating — 80 ratings
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Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It
Homesick: Why Housing Is Unaffordable and How We Can Change It 3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Chicago: City on the Make
Chicago: City on the Make 4.15 avg rating — 1,122 ratings
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Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta
Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta 3.95 avg rating — 121 ratings
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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century 4.03 avg rating — 49,873 ratings
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Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems 3.94 avg rating — 409 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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Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle
Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City
Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City 3.72 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing
Sunbelt Blues: The Failure of American Housing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 303 ratings
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The Informal American City: From Taco Trucks to Day Labor
The Informal American City: From Taco Trucks to Day Labor 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Housing Finance 2020
Housing Finance 2020 4.46 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving 3.65 avg rating — 757 ratings
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The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood
The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood 3.85 avg rating — 266 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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Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants
Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants 3.86 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis 3.84 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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Home Buying In 30 Minutes: Build your team, get your mortgage, and close the deal. The quick guide to doing real estate right.
Home Buying In 30 Minutes: Build your team, get your mortgage, and close the deal. The quick guide to doing real estate right. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 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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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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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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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster 4.07 avg rating — 1,387 ratings
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City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future 3.86 avg rating — 288 ratings
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Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back
Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back 3.65 avg rating — 247 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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Rethinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking
Rethinking a Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking 3.40 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Remembering Roadside America: Preserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place
Remembering Roadside America: Preserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place 3.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape
Losing It All to Sprawl: How Progress Ate My Cracker Landscape 4.13 avg rating — 55 ratings