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 …
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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. 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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3. The Economy of Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.22
Format: None pages,
The thesis of this book is that cities are the primary drivers of economic development. Her main ar… read more
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4. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
By: Jon Gertner
4.14
Format: 152 pages,
From its beginnings in the 1920s until its demise in the 1980s, Bell Labs--officially, the research… read more
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5. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
By: Christopher W. Alexander , None , None , None , None , None
4.14
Format: None pages, Hardcover
At the core of A Pattern Languageis the philosophy that in designing their environments people alwa… read more
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6. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
By: Stewart Brand
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Buildings have often been studied whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in … read more
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7. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
By: Robert A. Caro
3.25
Format: 40 pages, Paperback
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman pr… 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. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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10. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
11. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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12. 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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13. 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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14. Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
By: Matt Alt
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that ca… read more
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15. 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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16. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more
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17. 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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18. 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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19. Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
By: Alain Bertaud
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urba… read more
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"Beaune plays the role of Wall Street for Burgundy wine."-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
"If we look at the way an industrial producer creates new products, we see a long list of trials and errors and eventually improvement in quality at a lower cost. Urban policies and strategies, by con…"-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
"For electric vehicles, the power plant generators alimenting the electrical grind will then produce the GHGs, not the car engine itself. Concerns for GHG emissions would then shift to the source of e…"-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
"I want to make it clear that I am not implying here that all housing issues can be solved through market solutions. Many cases of homelessness, for instance, particularly in affluent cities, stem fro…"-Alain Bertaud, Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
20. Tokyo: A Biography
By: Stephen Mansfield
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long. A concise yet detailed overview of this fascinat… read more
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