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Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life

David Sim · 2019

Why Public Space Matters

Setha Low · 2022

How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

PE Moskowitz · 2018

The Sustainable City

Steven Cohen · 2017

The Nature of Our Cities Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet

Nadina Galle · 2024

Growing a Sustainable City?

Christina D. Rosan, Hamil Pearsall · 20171129

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

James Howard Kunstler · 1993

Eighty percent of everything ever built in America has been built since the end of World War II. This tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside is not simply an expression of our economic predicament, but in large part a cause. It is the everyday environment where most Americans live and work, and it represents a gathering calamity whose effects we have hardly begun to measure.<br/>In The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler traces America's evolution from a nation of Main Streets and coherent communities to a land where everyplace is like noplace in particular, where the city is a dead zone and the countryside a wasteland of cars and blacktop. Now that the great suburban build-out is over, Kunstler argues, we are stuck with the consequences: a national living arrangement that destroys civic life while imposing enormous social costs and economic burdens. Kunstler explains how our present zoning laws impoverish the life of our communities, and how all our efforts to make automobiles happy have resulted in making human beings miserable. He shows how common building regulations have led to a crisis in affordable housing, and why street crime is directly related to our traditional disregard for the public realm.<br/>Kunstler takes the reader on a historical journey to understand how Americans came to view their landscape as a commodity for exploitation rather than a social resource. He explains why our towns and cities came to be wounded by the abstract dogmas of Modernism, and reveals the paradox of a people who yearn for places worthy of their affection, yet bend their efforts in an economic enterprise of destruction that degrades and defaces what they most deeply desire.<br/>Kunstler proposes sensible remedies for this American crisis of landscape and townscape: a return to sound principles of planning and the lost art of good place-making, an end to the tyranny of compulsive commuting, the unreality of the suburb, the alienation and violence of downtown, the vulgarity of the highway strip, and the destruction of our countryside. The Geography of Nowhere puts the issue of how we actually live squarely at the center of our ongoing debate about the nation's economy and America's future.

Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

Dorceta Taylor · 2014

The Power Broker Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro · 1975

The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein · 2018

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs · 1992

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

William H. Whyte · 2001

How Infrastructure Works

Deb Chachra · 2023

Dream Cities

Wade Graham · 1740

Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty

Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock · 2021

The Idealist

Nina Munk · 2013

Profit and Punishment: How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice

Tony Messenger · 2021

Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's urgent mission to bring healing to homeless people

Tracy Kidder · 2023

What Makes a Great City

Alexander Garvin · 2016

The Next American City: The Big Promise of Our Midsize Metros

Mick Cornett, Jayson White · 2018

The Address Book

Deirdre Mask · 2020

The 15-Minute City

Carlos Moreno, Jan Gehl, Martha Thorne · 2024

Centers of Progress: 40 Cities That Changed the World

Chelsea Follett · 2023

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

Charles Montgomery · 2014

Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World

Sara C. Bronin · 2024

Capital City

Samuel Stein · 2019

Segregation by Design

Jessica Trounstine · 20181115

The Economy of Cities

Jane Jacobs · 2016

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond · 2023

Walkable City

Jeff Speck · 2013

The End of Poverty

Jeffrey Sachs · 2008

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

David S. Landes · 1999

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

Thomas Sowell · 2016

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson · 2013

Economic Facts and Fallacies, 2nd edition

Thomas Sowell · 2011

How Markets Fail

John Cassidy · 2021

Free Lunch Thinking: How Economists Ruin the Economy

Tom Bergin · 2022

Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality

James Kwak · 2017

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

Robert J. Shiller · 2020

<p><b>From Nobel Prize–winning economist and <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbreaking account of how stories help drive economic events—and why financial panics can spread like epidemic viruses</b><br><br>Stories people tell—about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin—can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics and finance because they seem anecdotal and unscientific. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Shiller explains why we ignore these stories at our peril—and how we can begin to take them seriously. Using a rich array of examples and data, Shiller argues that studying popular stories that influence individual and collective economic behavior—what he calls "narrative economics"—may vastly improve our ability to predict, prepare for, and lessen the damage of financial crises and other major economic events. The result is nothing less than a new way to think about the economy, economic change, and economics. In a new preface, Shiller reflects on some of the challenges facing narrative economics, discusses the connection between disease epidemics and economic epidemics, and suggests why epidemiology may hold lessons for fighting economic contagions.</p>

Good Economics for Hard Times

Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo · 2019

Poor Economics A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo · 2012

This is it

Alan Watts · 2015

Living in the Light

Shakti Gawain · 1988

Become What You Are

Alan W. Watts · 2003

The Book On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Alan Watts · 1989

A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Karen Armstrong · 1994

The Hidden Power of Your Past Lives: Revealing Your Encoded Consciousness

Sandra Anne Taylor · 2011

The Art of War

Sun Tzu · 2019

The Alchemist

Paulo Coelho · 2015

It's All in Your Head

Russ · 2019

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down How to Be Calm in a Busy World

Haemin Sunim · 2018

The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams

Deepak Chopra · 1994

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Eckhart Tolle · 2004

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)

Don Miguel Ruiz · 1997

Living Untethered

Michael A. Singer · 2022

All About Love: New Visions

bell hooks · 2018

Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon

Dr. Joe Dispenza · 2019

The Kybalion: Centenary Edition

Three Initiates · 2018

<b>The most popular occult work of the twentieth century--now in a hardbound edition that evokes the original volume, with a new introduction by scholar of mysticism Richard Smoley.</b><br><br> For generations, readers have debated the origins and studied the knowledge of this mysterious exploration of Hermetic wisdom, attributed to "Three Initiates." <br><br>Now in its second century, <i>The Kybalion</i> is restored to hardcover in a commemorative volume that evokes the appearance of the occult landmark's first edition.<br><br> The new introduction by Richard Smoley, a celebrated scholar of mystical traditions, makes this a historical keepsake.

The Way of Zen

Alan Watts · 1999

A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61)

Eckhart Tolle · 2008

The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide

Gary Zukav · 2014

Be Here Now (Enhanced Edition)

Ram Dass · 2010