11 must-read history books like City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways by Megan Kimble

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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 …

If you liked the history plot in City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways by Megan Kimble , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • audiobook
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2. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

Similar categories in Keith O'Brien's Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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3. 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

Similar categories in Henry Grabar's Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • history
  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
  • cities
  • audiobook
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4. We Were the Universe

By: Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desir… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly King Parsons's We Were the Universe book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • audiobook
"It’s an unusual question, though not as unusual as you might think amongst women who have had children. Once you’ve been slit open by a surgeon or taken a shit in a birthing tub, a whole glittering w…"

-Kimberly King Parsons, We Were the Universe

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5. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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6. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Herold's Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
  • audiobook
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7. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

Similar categories in Thomas F. Schaller's White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. No Judgment: Essays

By: Lauren Oyler

3.30

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Oyler's No Judgment: Essays book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"

-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays

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9. 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

Similar categories in Kōhei Saitō's Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

Similar categories in Mike Hixenbaugh's They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Daniel Knowles's Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • history
  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
  • audiobook
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12. Eyeliner: A Cultural History

By: Zahra Hankir

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed editor of Our Women on the Ground comes a dazzling exploration of the intersecti… read more

Similar categories in Zahra Hankir's Eyeliner: A Cultural History book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. 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

Similar categories in Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • history
  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urban
  • urbanism
  • cities
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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14. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • nonfiction
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15. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

Similar categories in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. 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

Similar categories in Veronica O. Davis's Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
  • urban
  • cities
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17. On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

By: Abrahm Lustgarten

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens o… read more

Similar categories in Abrahm Lustgarten's On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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18. 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

Similar categories in Charles L. Marohn Jr.'s Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • politics
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
  • cities
  • audiobook
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19. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

Similar categories in Prentis Hemphill's What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing

By: Max Podemski

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st ce… read more

Similar categories in Max Podemski's A Paradise of Small Houses: The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing book and Megan Kimble's City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways

  • history
  • urban planning
  • nonfiction
  • urbanism
  • cities
  • audiobook

18 Top audiobook books like City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways by Megan Kimble

Transform Your Habits

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar

4.20

Transform Your Habits

We Were the Universe

Kimberly King Parsons

3.68

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14 Best audiobook books like What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

Alua Arthur

4.26

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