The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
By: Spiro Kostof
4.25
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a "repository of cultural meanin…
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1. The Image of the City
By: Kevin Lynch
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the … read more
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- architecture
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"El propio observador debe desempeñar un papel activo al percibir el mundo y tener una participación creadora en la elaboración de su imagen. Debe contar con el poder de cambiar esa imagen para adapta…"-Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City
2. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.16
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why do we do the things we do? More than a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert … read more
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3. David Copperfield
By: Charles Dickens , Jeremy Tambling
4.03
Format: 882 pages, Paperback
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impov… read more
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"Trifles make the sum of life. "-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"the sight of me is good for sore eyes"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him."-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day"-Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
4. City: Rediscovering the Center
By: William H. Whyte
4.35
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Uses observations of pedestrians to describe and analyze the city, and assesses the influence of ar… read more
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5. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
By: Dan Simmons
4.27
Format: 500 pages, Mass Market Paperback
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature calle… read more
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"You have to live to really know things, my love"-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"In such seconds of decision entire futures are made."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
"The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals."-Dan Simmons, Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
6. The Power and the Glory
By: John Updike , Graham Greene
3.13
Format: 192 pages,
How does goodspoil, and how can badbe redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, G… read more
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7. Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
By: None , None , None
3.28
Format: 404 pages,
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8. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
By: Lewis Mumford
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "On… read more
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9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By: Mark Twain , E.W. Kemble , John Seelye , Guy Cardwell
3.83
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down t… read more
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"งั้นก็เอาละ เราจะลงนรก..."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Confound it, it's foolish, Tom"-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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"All right, then, I'll go to hell."-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
10. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
By: Rem Koolhaas
4.16
Format: None pages,
In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Archi… read more
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11. Catch-22
By: Joseph Heller
3.99
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Fifty years after its original publication, Catch-22 remains a cornerstone of American literature a… read more
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"Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
"They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?"-Joseph Heller, Catch-22
12. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
13. Orlando Furioso
By: Ludovico Ariosto , Guido Waldman
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
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14. The Odyssey
By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
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15. Apology
By: Plato , James J. Helm
4.20
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
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"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."-Plato, Apology
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3.91
Format: 848 pages, Hardcover
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"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"-Homer, The Iliad
17. The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History
By: Spiro Kostof
4.25
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Spanning the ages and the globe, Spiro Kostof explores the city as a "repository of cultural meanin… read more
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- history
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urban
- design
- urbanism
- cities
- urban design
- geography
