Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
By: Angie Schmitt
4.40
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old…
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1. The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
By: David Epstein
4.20
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback. In high school, I wonde… read more
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"The idea that athleticism was suddenly inversely proportional to intellect was never a cause of bigotry, but rather a result of it."-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
"One of the issues with our field is when we've looked at activity, and what controls activity, we've forgotten that we know very clearly there are biological mechanisms that actually influence people…"-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
"If you want to know if your kid is going to be fast, the best genetic test right now is a stopwatch. Take him to the playground and have him face the other kids.' Foster's point is that, despite the …"-David Epstein, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance
2. 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
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. 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. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream
By: H.G. Bissinger
3.33
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Return once again to the enduring account of life in the Mojo lane, to the Permian Panthers of Odes… read more
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8. How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
By: P.E. Moskowitz
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The term gentrificationhas become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across … read more
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9. Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save The Economy
By: Elly Blue
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Making the case for adopting more sustainable modes of transportation, this engaging reference expl… read more
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10. 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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11. League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth
By: Mark Fainaru-Wada , Steve Fainaru
3.71
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
"PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYERS DO NOT SUSTAIN FREQUENT REPETITIVE BLOWS TO THE BRAIN ON A REGULAR B… read more
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12. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
13. 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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- urbanism
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14. 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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15. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
By: Alexandra Lange
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more
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"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
16. 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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17. Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
By: Eric Klinenberg
3.97
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our frac… read more
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"Democracy must begin at home, and its home is the neighborly community."-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
"Even the Internet, which was supposed to deliver unprecedented cultural diversity ad democratic communication, has become an echo chamber where people see and hear what they already believe."-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
"Today, our communities are full of children whose future, like Jelani's, will be formed in the places where they go to learn about themselves and the world they'll inherit. They deserve palaces. Whet…"-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
"The accessible physical space of the library is not the only factor that makes it work well as social infrastructure. The institution's extensive programming, organized by a professional staff that u…"-Eric Klinenberg, Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
18. 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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19. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict
By: Oren Kessler
4.33
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more
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20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. 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
24. Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
By: Angie Schmitt
4.40
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The face of the pedestrian safety crisis looks a lot like Ignacio Duarte-Rodriguez. The 77-year old… read more
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- urban studies
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urban
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- cities
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25. Feminist City: A Field Guide
By: Leslie Kern
3.92
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly… read more
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"En su ensayo “Merodeo callejero: una aventura londinense"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La figura del flâneur, famosa por su rol en la obra de Charles Baudelaire, remite a un caballero que es un “espectador apasionado"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"La separación de los espacios en función del género significaba que la producción podía alinearse con el mundo de los hombres, y el consumo, con el de las mujeres."-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
"Lorna Day, directora de Diseño Urbano en Toronto, se enteró hace poco de que los lineamientos de la ciudad para calcular los efectos del viento partían de una “persona estándar"-Leslie Kern, Feminist City: A Field Guide
26. City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
By: Megan Kimble
4.27
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An eye-opening investigation into how our ever-expanding urban highways accelerated inequality and … read more
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27. Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities
By: Veronica O. Davis
4.41
Format: 151 pages, Paperback
Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting… read more
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28. Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
By: Gretchen Sorin
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
It’s hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for African American… read more
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29. 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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30. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain
By: Peter S. Goodman
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspond… read more
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31. Cycling for Sustainable Cities (Urban and Industrial Environments)
By: Ralph Buehler
4.36
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
How to make city cycling--the most sustainable form of urban transportation--safe, practical, and c… read more
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