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  • Matthew Carmona The best books about urban design that inspired me Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of The Concise Townscape Book cover of The Image of the City Book cover of A New Theory of Urban Design Book cover of Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
  • Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani The best books about home, belonging, and struggle through the stories of real people Book cover of Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape Book cover of Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It Book cover of Fragile Dwelling: How the Homeless Create Places of Their Own Book cover of Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough Book cover of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
  • Paul Bass The best books on Black protest and government resistance Book cover of Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power Book cover of The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther Book cover of The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in America Book cover of Black Politics / White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Black Panthers in New Haven Book cover of Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
  • Krysta Ryzewski The best books about Detroit’s hidden histories Book cover of A People's Atlas of Detroit Book cover of Detroit's Hidden Channels: The Power of French-Indigenous Families in the Eighteenth Century Book cover of The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits Book cover of Detroit 1967: Origins, Impacts, Legacies Book cover of The Grande Ballroom: Detroit's Rock 'n' Roll Palace
  • Daniel Knowles The best books for urbanists who hate cars Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster―Who Profits and Who Pays the Price Book cover of Traffic in Towns: A Study of the Long Term Problems of Traffic in Urban Areas Book cover of The Wind in the Willows Book cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Elizabeth Kryder-Reid The best books about toxic heritage: pollution, politics, and why history matters Book cover of Pollution Is Colonialism Book cover of Sites Unseen: Uncovering Hidden Hazards in American Cities Book cover of Industrial Ruination, Community and Place: Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline Book cover of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor Book cover of The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945
  • Conrad Kickert The best books about the exciting life of cities Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space Book cover of Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention Book cover of The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History Book cover of The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
  • Eric Porter The best books for understanding what airports teach us about society Book cover of Airports, Cities, and the Jet Age: US Airports Since 1945 Book cover of Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure Book cover of Jim Crow Terminals: The Desegregation of American Airports Book cover of Station Eleven Book cover of Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles
  • Todd Swanstrom The best books about why neighborhoods still matter Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America Book cover of A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America Book cover of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago Book cover of Excluded: How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
  • Catherine McNeur The best histories of nature in unexpected places Book cover of Animal City: The Domestication of America Book cover of Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats Book cover of Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition Book cover of Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash Book cover of Bulldozer: Demolition and Clearance of the Postwar Landscape
  • Beryl Satter The best books on urban history Book cover of Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 Book cover of Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place Book cover of Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty Book cover of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, with a New Preface Book cover of Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City
  • Daniel P. Aldrich Daniel P. Aldrich's favorite books on the everyday places that hold communities together Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of Palaces for the People Book cover of Unanticipated Gains Book cover of The Great Good Place Book cover of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
  • Dean G. Lampros The best books on the hidden power of space and place to shape our lives Book cover of The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America Book cover of The Topography of Wellness: How Health and Disease Shaped the American Landscape Book cover of From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store Book cover of Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City Book cover of Clearing Land: Legacies of the American Farm
  • Ken Greenberg The best books that have helped me understand cities Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City Book cover of The Wisdom of Crowds Book cover of Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution Book cover of The Joy Experiments: Reimagining Mid-sized Cities to Heal Our Divided Society
  • Alex Marshall The best books for telling why cities and suburbs look and function the way they do Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise And Fall Of Suburbia Book cover of New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the City (1869-1930) Book cover of Edge City: Life on the New Frontier Book cover of The Highway and the City
  • Roberta Brandes Gratz The best books on authentic urbanism Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of City: Rediscovering the Center Book cover of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York Book cover of The Economy of Cities Book cover of Getting There: The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American Century
  • Oona Horx Strathern The best books to show why kindness is profitable (and not boring) Book cover of Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman - Including 10 More Years of Business as Usual Book cover of Rebuild: How to thrive in the new Kindness Economy Book cover of From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want Book cover of Urban Acupuncture Book cover of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
  • Christiane Bird The best nonfiction books about New York City by women writers Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York Book cover of The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir Book cover of Just Kids Book cover of Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
  • Scott E. Page The best books for an aspiring or inspiring social scientist Book cover of The Death and Life of Great American Cities Book cover of A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction Book cover of The Limits of Organization Book cover of The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty Book cover of The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society
  • Daniel P. Aldrich The best books about the importance of community during shocks and disasters Book cover of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster Book cover of Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago Book cover of Weathering Katrina: Culture and Recovery among Vietnamese Americans Book cover of Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy Book cover of The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster
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