Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
By: M. Nolan Gray
4.18
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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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. 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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6. 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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7. Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
By: Edward L. Glaeser
4.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's g… read more
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8. 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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9. Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-… 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. One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger
By: Matthew Yglesias
3.88
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memor… 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
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13. Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems
By: Jenny Schuetz
3.95
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Much ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the Uni… read more
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14. 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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15. 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
16. 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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17. Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City
By: Jorge Almazán
4.46
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Tokyo is one of the most vibrant and livable cities on the planet, a megacity that somehow remains … read more
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18. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
By: Conor Dougherty
4.07
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis Spacious and affordable homes… read more
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19. The Affordable City: Strategies for Putting Housing Within Reach (and Keeping it There)
By: Shane Phillips
4.20
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crise… read more
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20. In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work
By: Kyla Scanlon
3.85
Format: 279 pages, Hardcover
“Few people can communicate how the economy actually works better than Kyla Scanlon.” —Morgan House… read more
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21. Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.49
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Explore the past, present, and future of housing in America, as well as solutions to its most press… read more
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