Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.26
Format: 256 pages, ebook
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
By: Janette Sadik-Khan , Seth Solomonow
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An empowering road map for rethinking, reinvigorating, and redesigning our cities, from a pioneer i… read more
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3. Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
By: Charles Montgomery
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Charles Montgomery's Happy Citywill revolutionize the way we think about urban life. After decades … read more
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4. The High Cost of Free Parking
By: Donald C. Shoup
3.79
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
American drivers park for free on nearly ninety-nine percent of their car trips, and cities require… read more
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5. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
By: Robert D. Putnam
3.77
Format: 67 pages,
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6. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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7. Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change
By: Mike Lydon , None
4.75
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, eve… read more
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8. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
By: Jeff Speck
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it d… read more
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9. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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10. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.26
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Discover insider secrets of how America's transportation system is designed, funded, and built - an… read more
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11. The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans
By: Bill Hammack
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Discover the secret method used to build the world… For millennia, humans have used one simple m… read more
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12. Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
By: M. Nolan Gray
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing… read more
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13. Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It
By: Daniel Knowles
4.27
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A high-octane polemic against cars—which are ruining the world, while making us unhappy and unhealt… read more
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14. Curbing Traffic: The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives
By: Melissa Bruntlett
4.41
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherl… read more
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15. Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places
By: Jeff Speck
4.36
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable—for reasons of health, wealth, and the environm… read more
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16. Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
By: Melissa Bruntlett
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In car-clogged urban areas across the world, the humble bicycle is enjoying a second life as a legi… read more
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17. There Are No Accidents
By: Jessie Singer
4.33
Format: None pages, None
A journalist recounts the surprising history of accidents and reveals how they’ve come to define al… read more
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"It is an act of love to demand accountability for the dead. And it takes rage to prevent the same accidents from happening again."-Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents
"Blame and the punishment that follows may satisfy the thirst for vengeance. But we cannot punish and learn at the same time. Punishment keeps in place the belief that the system is safe and the human…"-Jessie Singer, There Are No Accidents
18. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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19. Het recht van de snelste
By: Thalia Verkade
4.18
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Winnaar van de Brusseprijs voor het beste journalistieke boek van 2020. Steekt een hert de weg … read more
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20. Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
By: Steven Higashide
4.27
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Imagine a bus system that is fast, frequent, and reliable—what would that change about your city? B… read more
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21. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry
By: Austin Frerick
4.20
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more
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