Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. 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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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
By: Jake Bittle
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more
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6. 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
7. 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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8. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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9. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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10. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
By: Jennifer Pahlka
4.42
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more
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11. 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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12. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
By: Deb Chachra
3.67
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdo… read more
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"We’re accustomed to thinking about making the transition away from fossil fuels to renewable sources as one that we are doing under duress, making a sacrifice to stave off disaster. But that’s not wh…"-Deb Chachra, How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
13. 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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14. 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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15. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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16. The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers
By: Jim Morris
3.97
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
The story of a group of Goodyear Tire and Rubber workers fatally exposed to toxic chemicals, the la… read more
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17. Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
By: Richard D. Kahlenberg
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segreg… read more
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18. 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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19. Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
By: Keith Houston
3.87
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
The hidden history of the pocket calculator―a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped bui… read more
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20. 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
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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
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