Urban Planning and City History

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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities 4.29 avg rating — 19,193 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 — 5,328 ratings
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles 4.21 avg rating — 4,680 ratings
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier 3.92 avg rating — 6,285 ratings
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The High Cost of Free Parking
The High Cost of Free Parking 4.21 avg rating — 1,016 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 — 8,338 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 — 27,085 ratings
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Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities
Dystopia: How The Tyranny of Specialists Fragment African Cities 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World 3.89 avg rating — 55,259 ratings
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London: The Biography
London: The Biography 3.96 avg rating — 5,912 ratings
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A Theory of Good City Form
A Theory of Good City Form 4.08 avg rating — 302 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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The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy 3.70 avg rating — 297 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 — 8,995 ratings
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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City 3.83 avg rating — 1,412 ratings
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Nature by Design: People, Natural Process, and Ecological Restoration
Nature by Design: People, Natural Process, and Ecological Restoration really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38 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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Urban Design, Space and Society (Planning, Environment, Cities, 39)
Urban Design, Space and Society (Planning, Environment, Cities, 39) 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century
Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century 3.96 avg rating — 71 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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Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630
Planning the City upon a Hill: Boston since 1630 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Great Streets
Great Streets 4.30 avg rating — 415 ratings
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101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School
101 Things I Learned in Urban Design School 4.26 avg rating — 295 ratings
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What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
What We See: Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,923 ratings
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Paved A Way: Infrastructure, Policy and Racism in an American City
Paved A Way: Infrastructure, Policy and Racism in an American City 3.98 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities
Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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A History of Future Cities
A History of Future Cities 4.04 avg rating — 838 ratings
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Planet of Slums
Planet of Slums really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,287 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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Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs
Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs 3.81 avg rating — 160 ratings
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101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School
101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School 4.26 avg rating — 295 ratings
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Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All
Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All 3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Concrete Vineyard
The Concrete Vineyard
by: Cam Lang
4.13 avg rating — 155 ratings
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The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities
The Origins of Australia's Capital Cities really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Citizenville: Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age
Citizenville: Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age 3.70 avg rating — 610 ratings
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The New Geography of Jobs
The New Geography of Jobs 4.03 avg rating — 2,711 ratings
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Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World 4.09 avg rating — 769 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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Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability: Inventing Ecotopia
Seattle and the Roots of Urban Sustainability: Inventing Ecotopia 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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How to Study Public Life
How to Study Public Life
by: Jan Gehl
4.13 avg rating — 374 ratings
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City: Rediscovering the Center
City: Rediscovering the Center 4.24 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race
The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race 4.48 avg rating — 21 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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City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village
City Comforts: How to Build an Urban Village 3.86 avg rating — 106 ratings
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The Image of the City
The Image of the City 4.05 avg rating — 4,121 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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The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000
The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Water Lords; Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Industry and Environmental Crisis in Savannah, Georgia
The Water Lords; Ralph Nader's Study Group Report on Industry and Environmental Crisis in Savannah, Georgia 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing with our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside
The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing with our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside
by: Tony Hiss
3.82 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities
Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities 3.79 avg rating — 98 ratings
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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life 3.68 avg rating — 3,329 ratings
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Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next
Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next 3.54 avg rating — 289 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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Garden Cities of To-Morrow
Garden Cities of To-Morrow 3.61 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People's Power
Homeboy Came to Orange: A Story of People's Power 4.21 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City 3.77 avg rating — 670 ratings
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles 3.86 avg rating — 861 ratings
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The Culture of Cities
The Culture of Cities 4.09 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Building Commons and Community
Building Commons and Community
by: Karl Linn
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism 3.66 avg rating — 189 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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Building Together: Case Studies in Participatory Planning and Community Building
Building Together: Case Studies in Participatory Planning and Community Building 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (Anchor Books)
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (Anchor Books) 3.82 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies 3.54 avg rating — 4,057 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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Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City
Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 962 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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City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction
City: A Story of Roman Planning and Construction 4.28 avg rating — 1,551 ratings
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Eyes On The Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs
Eyes On The Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs 3.95 avg rating — 313 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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Comeback Cities: A Blueprint For Urban Neighborhood Revival
Comeback Cities: A Blueprint For Urban Neighborhood Revival 3.54 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Becoming Jane Jacobs
Becoming Jane Jacobs 4.04 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Genius of Common Sense Jane Jacobs and the Story of The Death and Life of Great American Citites
Genius of Common Sense Jane Jacobs and the Story of The Death and Life of Great American Citites 4.01 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Economy of Cities
The Economy of Cities 4.09 avg rating — 1,246 ratings