Urban Planning Histories (nonfiction)

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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 — 44,180 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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Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series)
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution (Updated Edition) (South End Press Classics Series) 4.24 avg rating — 1,080 ratings
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Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate 3.79 avg rating — 4,366 ratings
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The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing
The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing 4.53 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology) 4.16 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities
Broken Chains and Subverted Plans: Ethnicity, Race, and Commodities 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Housing a divided community
Housing a divided community really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study 4.33 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It 4.06 avg rating — 314 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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Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century City
Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century City 3.83 avg rating — 236 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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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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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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Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube
Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube 3.83 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom 3.86 avg rating — 222 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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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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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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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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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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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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In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist 3.79 avg rating — 1,003 ratings
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Slums of the World: The face of urban poverty in the new millennium?
Slums of the World: The face of urban poverty in the new millennium? liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 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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Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation
Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation 4.02 avg rating — 123 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 City in History: It's Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
The City in History: It's Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects 4.10 avg rating — 1,453 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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Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs 4.22 avg rating — 183 ratings
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On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City 3.93 avg rating — 74 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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The Economy of Cities
The Economy of Cities 4.09 avg rating — 1,246 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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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters 4.13 avg rating — 1,370 ratings
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Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization: From Mecca to Dubai
Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization: From Mecca to Dubai 3.99 avg rating — 466 ratings
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An Atlas of Rare City Maps: Comparative Urban Design, 1830-1842
An Atlas of Rare City Maps: Comparative Urban Design, 1830-1842 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy 4.15 avg rating — 2,842 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 Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999
The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999 3.53 avg rating — 107 ratings
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The Urbanists, 1865-1915:
The Urbanists, 1865-1915: 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life 3.93 avg rating — 529 ratings
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution 4.26 avg rating — 2,119 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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Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival
Street Smart: A Fifty-Year Mistake Set Right and the Great Urban Revival 4.12 avg rating — 681 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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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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Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death 3.68 avg rating — 263 ratings
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Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago 3.62 avg rating — 276 ratings
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Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) 4.14 avg rating — 28 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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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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Transporting Atlanta: The Mode of Mobility Under Construction (SUNY series in Urban Public Policy)
Transporting Atlanta: The Mode of Mobility Under Construction (SUNY series in Urban Public Policy) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Thirsty City: Politics, Greed, and the Making of Atlanta's Water Crisis
Thirsty City: Politics, Greed, and the Making of Atlanta's Water Crisis 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It
Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What To Do About It 3.81 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Drying Up: The Fresh Water Crisis in Florida
Drying Up: The Fresh Water Crisis in Florida 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida
Stolen Water: Saving the Everglades from Its Friends, Foes, and Florida 3.62 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Jimmy Carter and the Water Wars: Presidential Influence and the Politics of Pork
Jimmy Carter and the Water Wars: Presidential Influence and the Politics of Pork 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River
Where the Water Goes: Life and Death Along the Colorado River 3.93 avg rating — 3,217 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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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 Great Lakes Water Wars
The Great Lakes Water Wars 3.96 avg rating — 339 ratings
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The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century
The Ripple Effect: The Fate of Freshwater in the Twenty-First Century 3.94 avg rating — 418 ratings
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The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations 4.18 avg rating — 5,492 ratings
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Energy: A Human History
Energy: A Human History 3.74 avg rating — 1,806 ratings
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Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s 3.86 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future
Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America's Energy Future 3.99 avg rating — 451 ratings
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Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet
Coal Wars: The Future of Energy and the Fate of the Planet 3.69 avg rating — 90 ratings
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To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice 4.08 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City
The War on Neighborhoods: Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City 4.14 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America 4.37 avg rating — 4,459 ratings
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Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless
Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless 3.80 avg rating — 120 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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The Plant System Of Railroads, Steamships And Hotels: The South's First Great Industrial Enterprise
The Plant System Of Railroads, Steamships And Hotels: The South's First Great Industrial Enterprise really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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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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Henry Grady's New South: Atlanta, a Brave and Beautiful City
Henry Grady's New South: Atlanta, a Brave and Beautiful City 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath
Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War's Aftermath 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II 4.38 avg rating — 7,035 ratings
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Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy 4.34 avg rating — 70 ratings
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Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia 4.16 avg rating — 504 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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City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit
City of Champions: A History of Triumph and Defeat in Detroit 3.77 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System
Subway: The Curiosities, Secrets, and Unofficial History of the New York City Transit System 4.22 avg rating — 207 ratings
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The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism 4.49 avg rating — 12,423 ratings
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
by: Jed Horne
3.89 avg rating — 622 ratings
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The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice
The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD
Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterror Force--The NYPD 3.47 avg rating — 129 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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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 705 ratings
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Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia
Paternalism in a Southern City: Race, Religion, and Gender in Augusta, Georgia 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams (Haymarket Series)
Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams (Haymarket Series) 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West
Unreal City: Las Vegas, Black Mesa, and the Fate of the West 3.51 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story
Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story 3.79 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers)
Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers)
by: Don Brown
4.04 avg rating — 9,073 ratings
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Greenville: The History of the City and County in the South Carolina Piedmont
Greenville: The History of the City and County in the South Carolina Piedmont 4.31 avg rating — 13 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 — 109,951 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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Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport
Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City
Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City 3.65 avg rating — 75 ratings
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