Cities

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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
I Make Envy on Your Disco
We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
Killed by a Traffic Engineer: Shattering the Delusion that Science Underlies Our Transportation System
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time
Cerita-Cerita Jakarta
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Invisible Cities
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
The Works: Anatomy of a City
Cities for People
The Image of the City
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
The Economy of Cities
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
The Merchant of Venice by William ShakespeareNotre-Dame de Paris by Victor HugoThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerDubliners by James JoyceA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  Smith
Cities
1,585 books — 136 voters
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth AngerElvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu PresleyThe Princess Diarist by Carrie FisherWishful Drinking by Carrie FisherAll About All About Eve by Sam Staggs
Hooray for Hollywood (non-fiction)
233 books — 39 voters

Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la PeñaKnuffle Bunny by Mo WillemsTar Beach by Faith RinggoldMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyFlower Garden by Eve Bunting
Picture Books for Urban Kids
355 books — 25 voters
The Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerLess Than Zero by Bret Easton EllisWhite Oleander by Janet FitchThe Day of the Locust by Nathanael WestThe Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
Los Angeles (fiction and nonfiction)
322 books — 289 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,516 books — 1,223 voters
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrauThe Silver Chair by C.S. LewisTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules VerneNeverwhere by Neil GaimanThe Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Underground Cities
249 books — 51 voters


Neil Gaiman
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.
Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Italo Calvino
You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. ...more
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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