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…
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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. The Gathering
By: Anne Enright
3.13
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more
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"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
By: Jarrett Walker
2.43
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic … read more
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7. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
By: William Cronon
3.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of… read more
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8. The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It
By: Richard Florida
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Hardcover
In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades … read more
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9. Slaying the Badger: LeMond, Hinault and the Greatest Ever Tour de France
By: Richard Moore
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Tour de France is sport's most compelling battle -- an annual cauldron of heroism and treachery… read more
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10. Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands
By: Ben Coates
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The first book to offer an in depth look at hidden Holland and the fascinating people that live the… read more
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11. 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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12. Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
By: Taras Grescoe
4.57
Format: 140 pages,
Taras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the … read more
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13. 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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14. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
By: Ben Goldfarb
4.45
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life
By: David Sim
4.38
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confi… read more
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18. 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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19. The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
By: Greta Thunberg
4.40
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, … read more
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"The richest 1 per cent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity."-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
"The transformation we need in order to stay below 1.5 C or even 2 C of warming may not be politically possible today. But we are the ones who determine what will be politically possible tomorrow."-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
20. 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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21. Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
By: Jody Rosen
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twent… read more
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22. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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23. 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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24. Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
By: Rosecrans Baldwin
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A provocative, exhilaratingly new understanding of the United States’ most confounding metropolis—n… read more
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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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
28. Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
By: Paris Marx
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
How to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws… read more
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29. 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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30. Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada's Housing Crisis
By: Gregor Craigie
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn urgent and illuminating examination of the unrelenting housing crisis Canadia… read more
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31. Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism
By: Mikael Colville-Andersen
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The bicycle enjoyed a starring role in urban history over a century ago, but now it is back, strong… read more
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