Urban Planning/Social Ecology

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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 — 27,074 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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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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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life 3.97 avg rating — 5,123 ratings
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,280 ratings
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Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Michigan) (Creating the North American Landscape)
Redevelopment and Race: Planning a Finer City in Postwar Detroit (Michigan) (Creating the North American Landscape) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism 4.25 avg rating — 289 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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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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Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance 4.21 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies 4.11 avg rating — 5,357 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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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 4.47 avg rating — 109,925 ratings
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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 — 1,257 ratings
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The Timeless Way of Building
The Timeless Way of Building 4.37 avg rating — 2,571 ratings
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Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change
Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change 4.12 avg rating — 69 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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Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities
Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities 4.09 avg rating — 236 ratings
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West 4.26 avg rating — 3,510 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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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution 4.26 avg rating — 2,118 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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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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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City 3.93 avg rating — 1,003 ratings
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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City 4.01 avg rating — 312 ratings
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The Economy of Cities
The Economy of Cities 4.09 avg rating — 1,246 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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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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Urban Smellscapes
Urban Smellscapes 4.38 avg rating — 8 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 — 8,992 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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Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis
Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis 4.18 avg rating — 144 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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Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology
Transect Urbanism: Readings in Human Ecology 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature
City Wilds: Essays and Stories about Urban Nature 3.85 avg rating — 27 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 — 44,180 ratings
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Urban Parks and Open Space
Urban Parks and Open Space liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild
Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild 4.24 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power 4.07 avg rating — 8,673 ratings
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Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness 4.01 avg rating — 1,797 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men 4.34 avg rating — 156,575 ratings
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The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild
The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild 3.93 avg rating — 632 ratings
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You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads
You Owe Yourself a Drunk: An Ethnography of Urban Nomads 3.96 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Archaeology of Urban America: The Search for Pattern and Process
Archaeology of Urban America: The Search for Pattern and Process liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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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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Perfect City: An Urban Fixer's Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis
Perfect City: An Urban Fixer's Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis 3.65 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design 4.03 avg rating — 7,320 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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Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World
Welcome to the Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing the World 3.65 avg rating — 110 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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Cities for People
Cities for People
by: Jan Gehl
4.35 avg rating — 2,335 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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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community 3.85 avg rating — 8,655 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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Sidewalk
Sidewalk 4.15 avg rating — 1,690 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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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) 3.67 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City
Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City 3.85 avg rating — 129 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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Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the Twentieth Century 3.84 avg rating — 711 ratings
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A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind
A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind 4.08 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
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Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Cities We Need
Speculative Futures: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience, and Co-create the Cities We Need 3.70 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
Supertall: How the World's Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
by: Stefan Al
3.90 avg rating — 303 ratings
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How Cities Work
How Cities Work 4.29 avg rating — 85 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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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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Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do and What It Says About Us 3.72 avg rating — 8,117 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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Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax
Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Garbage in the Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment
Garbage in the Cities: Refuse Reform and the Environment 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Feminist City: A Field Guide
Feminist City: A Field Guide 3.89 avg rating — 4,021 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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Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life
Redesigning the American Dream: The Future of Housing, Work and Family Life 4.16 avg rating — 129 ratings
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The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are
The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are 3.88 avg rating — 204 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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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet 4.43 avg rating — 3,175 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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Cities and Race
Cities and Race really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The New Urban Question
The New Urban Question 3.45 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities 4.10 avg rating — 93,526 ratings
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The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space
The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Urban Revolution
The Urban Revolution 4.08 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed 4.21 avg rating — 6,468 ratings
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City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles 4.20 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places 3.75 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life 4.16 avg rating — 5,312 ratings
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Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America 4.37 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Love Where You Live: Creating Emotionally Engaging Places
Love Where You Live: Creating Emotionally Engaging Places 3.98 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future
Nature in the City: Bengaluru in the Past, Present, and Future 4.17 avg rating — 60 ratings
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The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood 4.45 avg rating — 6,779 ratings
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Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives 4.37 avg rating — 868 ratings
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Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City 3.58 avg rating — 222 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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Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices From the Grassroots
Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices From the Grassroots 4.11 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality 3.86 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City 3.58 avg rating — 140 ratings
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The city as a community
The city as a community 2.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Other America: Poverty in the United States
The Other America: Poverty in the United States 4.06 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
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