Best Books about Building Cities

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La Grande Arche
La Grande Arche 3.85 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City 4.02 avg rating — 922 ratings
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Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome-FTPB for Pre-Syndicate Meeting Only
Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome-FTPB for Pre-Syndicate Meeting Only really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire
Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire 4.23 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Concrete and Culture: A Material History
Concrete and Culture: A Material History 4.14 avg rating — 51 ratings
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Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of the Death and Life of Great American Cities
Genius of Common Sense: Jane Jacobs and the Story of the Death and Life of Great American Cities 4.01 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain 4.23 avg rating — 568 ratings
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Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl 3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Birth of a Bridge
Birth of a Bridge 3.40 avg rating — 750 ratings
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built 4.35 avg rating — 1,842 ratings
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Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture 4.23 avg rating — 740 ratings
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Urban Smellscapes
Urban Smellscapes 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence
Oscar Niemeyer: Curves of Irreverence 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis
Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis 3.74 avg rating — 293 ratings
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The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia
The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia 4.09 avg rating — 75 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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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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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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Contemporary Urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília
Contemporary Urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America
The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America 3.33 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Visions of the City
Visions of the City 4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City
Robert Moses: The Master Builder of New York City 3.33 avg rating — 620 ratings
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States 4.03 avg rating — 2,049 ratings
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City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World 3.73 avg rating — 93 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 — 27,079 ratings
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Seeing the Better City: How to Explore, Observe, and Improve Urban Space
Seeing the Better City: How to Explore, Observe, and Improve Urban Space 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings
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City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World
City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World 3.73 avg rating — 426 ratings
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City for Sale: Intenational Financiers Take a Major North American City by Storm
City for Sale: Intenational Financiers Take a Major North American City by Storm 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities
The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities 3.95 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Cities: The First 6,000 Years
Cities: The First 6,000 Years 3.26 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Urban Ecology: A Natural Way to Transform Kids, Parks, Cities, and the World
Urban Ecology: A Natural Way to Transform Kids, Parks, Cities, and the World 4.42 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet 4.07 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It 3.50 avg rating — 1,330 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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Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World 3.63 avg rating — 626 ratings
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 4.29 avg rating — 19,190 ratings
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Andrew Young & the Making of Modern Atlanta
Andrew Young & the Making of Modern Atlanta 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age 3.78 avg rating — 7,115 ratings
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The Shame of the Cities (American Century Series)
The Shame of the Cities (American Century Series) 3.77 avg rating — 93 ratings