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1.
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by:
J. Anthony Lukas
4.32 avg rating — 2,728 ratings
2.
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
by:
Douglas S. Massey
4.13 avg rating — 1,602 ratings
3.
Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture
by:
Robert Staughton Lynd
3.64 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The City Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series)
by:
Richard T. LeGates
3.99 avg rating — 273 ratings
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The Spirit of Youth and City Streets (Illini Book)
by:
Jane Addams
3.72 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s
by:
Frederick Lewis Allen
3.98 avg rating — 2,340 ratings
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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
by:
Elijah Anderson
3.85 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
8.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.52 avg rating — 27,084 ratings
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The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business
by:
Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
4.05 avg rating — 336 ratings
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
by:
Lizabeth Cohen
3.85 avg rating — 1,095 ratings
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Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
by:
St. Clair Drake
4.32 avg rating — 150 ratings
12.
The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community
by:
Herbert J. Gans
3.64 avg rating — 44 ratings
13.
Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration
by:
James R. Grossman
3.57 avg rating — 70 ratings
14.
Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
by:
Arnold R. Hirsch
4.09 avg rating — 338 ratings
15.
My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965
by:
Becky M. Nicolaides
3.77 avg rating — 70 ratings
16.
American Metropolitics: The New Suburban Reality
by:
Myron Orfield
3.79 avg rating — 43 ratings
17.
Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York, 1890-1930
by:
Gilbert Osofsky
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 69 ratings
18.
Design With Nature
by:
Ian L. McHarg
4.26 avg rating — 645 ratings
19.
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
by:
Anne Moody
4.13 avg rating — 11,516 ratings
20.
The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy
by:
Lee Rainwater
3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
21.
City Games: The Evolution of American Urban Society and the Rise of Sports
by:
Steven A. Riess
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
22.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
by:
George Washington Plunkitt
3.63 avg rating — 859 ratings
23.
The Park and the People: A History of Central Park
by:
Roy Rosenzweig
3.96 avg rating — 110 ratings
24.
All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community
by:
Carol B. Stack
3.84 avg rating — 461 ratings
25.
Race Riot: Chicago In the Red Summer of 1919
by:
William M. Tuttle Jr.
3.86 avg rating — 122 ratings
26.
American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
by:
Sudhir Venkatesh
3.77 avg rating — 350 ratings
27.
From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors
by:
Lawrence J. Vale
3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings
28.
Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America
by:
Gwendolyn Wright
3.81 avg rating — 75 ratings
29.
Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World
by:
Sharon Zukin
4.04 avg rating — 52 ratings
30.
The Cultures of Cities
by:
Sharon Zukin
3.78 avg rating — 81 ratings
31.
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by:
William Cronon
4.26 avg rating — 3,509 ratings
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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-loving New York
by:
Richard Zacks
3.66 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
33.
The Rough Road to Renaissance: Urban Revitalization in America, 1940-1985 (Creating the North American Landscape)
by:
Jon C. Teaford
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings