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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

By Jane Jacobs ,

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How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
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How Paris Became Paris

By Joan DeJean ,

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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
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Rebel Cities

By David Harvey ,

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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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Happy City

By Charles Montgomery ,

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The Concise Townscape
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The Concise Townscape

By Gordon Cullen ,

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Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
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Life Between Buildings

By Jan Gehl ,

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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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Streetfight

By Janette Sadik-Khan , Seth Solomonow ,

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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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Walkable City

By Jeff Speck ,

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Order without Design: How Markets Shape Cities
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Order without Design

By Alain Bertaud ,

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Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration
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Ancient Rome

By O.F. Robinson ,

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From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City
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From a Cause to a Style

By Nathan Glazer ,

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Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Public City/Public Sex

By Andrew Israel Ross ,

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The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of Cities
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The Seduction of Place

By Joseph Rykwert ,

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Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans
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Building the Devil's Empire

By Shannon Lee Dawdy ,

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The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps
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The Invention of Paris

By Eric Hazan , David Fernbach (translator) ,

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Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology
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Tokyo

By Hidenobu Jinnai , Kimiko Nishimura (translator) ,

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Our Better Nature: Environment and the Making of San Francisco
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Our Better Nature

By Philip J. Dreyfus ,

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Cities in Civilization
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Cities in Civilization

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Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place
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Urban Fortunes

By John R. Logan , Harvey Molotch ,

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Resilient Cities: Overcoming Fossil Fuel Dependence
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Resilient Cities

By Peter Newman , Timothy Beatley , Heather Boyer

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The Works: Anatomy of a City
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The Works

By Kate Ascher ,

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Another City: Urban Life and Urban Spaces in the New American Republic
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Another City

By Dell Upton ,

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Zoned in the USA: The Origins and Implications of American Land-Use Regulation
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Zoned in the USA

By Sonia A. Hirt ,

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The City of To-morrow and Its Planning
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The City of To-morrow and Its Planning

By Le Corbusier , Frederick Etchells (translator) ,

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The Image of the City
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The Image of the City

By Kevin Lynch ,

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A New Theory of Urban Design
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A New Theory of Urban Design

By Christopher Alexander ,

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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
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Golden Gates

By Conor Dougherty ,

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Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
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Strong Towns

By Charles L. Marohn Jr. ,

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Boom Cities: Architect Planners and the Politics of Radical Urban Renewal in 1960s Britain
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Boom Cities

By Otto Saumarez Smith ,

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The High Cost of Free Parking
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The High Cost of Free Parking

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The Culture of Cities
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The Culture of Cities

By Lewis Mumford , Mark Crispin Miller (editor) ,

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Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
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Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

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The Topography of Wellness: How Health and Disease Shaped the American Landscape
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The Topography of Wellness

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Restorative Cities: Urban Design for Mental Health and Wellbeing
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Restorative Cities

By Jenny Roe , Layla McCay ,

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Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Well-Being, Equity, and Sustainability
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Making Healthy Places

By Nisha Botchwey (editor) , Andrew L. Dannenberg (editor) , Howard Frumkin (editor)

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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
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Palaces for the People

By Eric Klinenberg ,

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Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All
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Main Street

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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
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Crabgrass Frontier

By Kenneth T. Jackson ,

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Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability: Best Practice from European Cities
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Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability

By Andrea Colantonio , Tim Dixon ,

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Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition
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Splintering Urbanism

By Steve Graham , Simon Marvin ,

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Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives
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Human Transit

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Responsive Environments
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Responsive Environments

By Ian Bentley (editor) , Alan Alcock , Paul Murrain , Sue McGlynn , Graham Smith

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Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth
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Our Ecological Footprint

By Mathis Wackernagel , William Rees ,

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Introduction to Planning History in the United States
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Introduction to Planning History in the United States

By Donald A. Krueckeberg (editor) ,

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The History of the City
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The History of the City

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Planning the Good Community: New Urbanism in Theory and Practice
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Planning the Good Community

By Jill Grant ,

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Building the Local Economy: Cases in Economic Development
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Building the Local Economy

By Douglas J. Watson (editor) , John C. Morris (editor) ,

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Organizational Behavior and Public Management
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Organizational Behavior and Public Management

By Michael L. Vasu (editor) , Debra W. Stewart (editor) , G. David Garson (editor)

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The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011
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The Greatest Grid

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City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America's Urban Future
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City on the Verge

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Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability: International Frameworks, National and Local Governance
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Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability

By Sophia Labadi (editor) , William Logan (editor) ,

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New York Recentered: Building the Metropolis from the Shore
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New York Recentered

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La Calle: Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City
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La Calle

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Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center
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Twin Towers

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Bowling for Communism: Urban Ingenuity at the End of East Germany
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Bowling for Communism

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Urban Acupuncture
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Urban Acupuncture

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City: Rediscovering the Center
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City

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The Joy Experiments: Reimagining Mid-sized Cities to Heal Our Divided Society
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The Joy Experiments

By Scott Higgins , Paul Kalbfleisch ,

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Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia
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Smart Cities

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Sand Rush
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Sand Rush

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Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities
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Life After Carbon

By Peter Plastrik , John Cleveland ,

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Alva & Irva
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Alva & Irva

By Edward Carey ,

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Grand Avenues
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Grand Avenues

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