Cities

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution
New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
Cities: The First 6,000 Years
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
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
A History of Future Cities
The Image of the City
Cities for People
The Economy of Cities
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
The Island at the Center of the World by Russell ShortoThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisThe Power Broker by Robert A. CaroA Shopkeeper's Millennium by Paul E. JohnsonMornings on Horseback by David McCullough
New York State History (nonfiction)
185 books — 28 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
1,341 books — 1,190 voters

Season of the Witch by David TalbotThe Bohemians by Ben TarnoffThe Barbary Coast by Herbert AsburyThe Dragon's Child by Laurence YepThe Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound by Ralph J. Gleason
San Francisco History
179 books — 19 voters

The Color of Law by Richard RothsteinUrban Forests by Jill JonnesDetroit by Dan GeorgakasNinety Percent of Everything by Rose GeorgeThe Slaughter of Cities by E. Michael Jones
Urban Planning Histories (nonfiction)
115 books — 6 voters
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Stephen BrusatteI'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamaraEnlightenment Now by Steven PinkerFascism by Madeleine K. AlbrightThe Wizard and the Prophet by Charles C. Mann
Historical Nonfiction 2018
217 books — 53 voters


Jay Woodman
“ The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to take in as much light and love and colour and detail as they can. The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains ...more ”
― Jay Woodman, SPAN

Rasmenia Massoud
“ A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again. ”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad

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