urban planning
description: the technical and political process of designing and regulating the use of land, resources, and infrastructure in cities.
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City Limits: Infrastructure, Inequality, and the Future of America's Highways
by Megan Kimble · 2 Apr 2024 · 430pp · 117,211 words
modified criteria would reduce the cost of the program by at least $5 billion. But more than that, it would force cities to undertake proper urban planning. “The highway plan should not be the central pattern around which a community develops,” Bragdon told the assembled men. “The basic plan for all community
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were in addition to those resulting from neighborhood poverty, racial segregation, white flight, or urban renewal policies,” the researchers concluded. According to Eric Avila, an urban planning professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, between 1956 and 1966 highway construction demolished thirty-seven thousand units of housing annually. Decades later, the
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bridge, the cracks kept coming. Patrick had recently graduated with a degree in landscape architecture from Pennsylvania State University, where he’d become obsessed with urban planning. He didn’t know much about Dallas, but he wanted to live somewhere with warm weather, and the city seemed like a place where he
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is desirable, and they just say, ‘Well, the number says this, and so we’ve got to accommodate it,’ ” says Robert Goodspeed, a professor of urban planning at the University of Michigan. He calls this “colonizing the future.” If you plan for a future of car-centric sprawl, that’s what you
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and connected city” that could “accommodate more people in a considered and sustainable fashion.” The following year, the Austin City Council hired a California-based urban planning firm to update the city’s zoning code, a process they dubbed CodeNEXT. By the time I moved to Austin in 2017, signs opposing the
A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard
by Simon Jenkins · 7 Nov 2024 · 364pp · 94,801 words
to a counter-revolution, that of building conservation. This argued that old cities were not by definition ‘obsolete’. Cars need not be the rulers of urban planning. Renewal did not require destruction and existing fabric should be recognized as integral to townscape. By the end of the twentieth century, town planning was
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colour and texture that needed no adornment. New machines for moving, cooking and cleaning were sufficient ‘to compound a new aesthetic’. These ideas, essentially of urban planning, were of a different order from previous innovations but they still had an impact on architectural style. This was reflected in the limited number of
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’ by London University, Bayswater by the Church of England and the entirety of the Victorian railway by British Rail. The direction to be taken by urban planning was more intractable. Abercrombie’s utopian vision for London might be disintegrating, but it remained the official plan for the capital under the GLC. In
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile
by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words
safer streets where they can wander and play on their own. What will it take to center the needs of children at all levels of urban planning and design? How can we force a mindset shift that says that kids have as much of a right to their communities as anyone else
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the deepest problems that we have in the United States, and in the rest of the world,” Donald Shoup told us. Shoup, an engineer and urban planning professor who died in 2025, is best known as the author of a 2005 book, The High Cost of Free Parking, that has become a
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to live. The toxic legacy of “urban renewal” road projects, Kimble’s book shows us, has so damaged community trust in the whole concept of urban planning that local residents are sometimes very skeptical of teardown projects, seeing them as another possible engine of displacement, with rising property values and potential gentrification
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American megalopolis. Here’s what they told us. Ghent: “Monday Morning, Everything Was Different” In 2017, Filip Watteeuw, deputy mayor for mobility, public space, and urban planning for the city of Ghent, was on the verge of implementing one of the most ambitious car reduction initiatives anywhere in the world. Even though
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seen so many cities and nations begin to turn the tide. Melissa and Chris Bruntlett, authors of Curbing Traffic, put it this way: “20th century urban planning changed the concept of a street from a place to pass time to a place to pass through. 21st century planning is about reversing that
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-san-francisco-parking-lot-depot-fix-not-working. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Melissa and Chris Bruntlett, authors: Melissa & Chris Bruntlett (@modacitylife), “20th century urban planning changed the concept of a street from a place to pass time to a place to pass through. 21st century planning is about reversing that
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
by Quinn Slobodian · 4 Apr 2023 · 360pp · 107,124 words
. The story of the redevelopment of the Docklands is a set piece in the popular textbook Peter Hall, Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880, 4th ed. (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2014), 423–35. Enterprise zones have been objects of close critical academic examination since their
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Institute of Directors,” October 2, 1981, https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104711. 86. Gavin Shatkin, “Reinterpreting the Meaning of the ‘Singapore Model’: State Capitalism and Urban Planning,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38, no. 1 (January 2014): 124. 87. Tan, “The Ideology of Pragmatism: Neo-liberal Globalisation and Political Authoritarianism
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in Singapore,” 76. 88. Shatkin, “Reinterpreting the Meaning of the ‘Singapore Model’: State Capitalism and Urban Planning,” 135. 89. Seth S. King, “Modern Building Changes Face of Romantic Singapore,” New York Times, August 12, 1963, https://www.nytimes.com/1963/08/12
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/unicorn-island-will-be-built-in-chengdu-china/. 4. Kanna, Dubai: The City as Corporation, 91. 5. Patrik Schumacher and Rahim Taghizadegan, “The Failure of Urban Planning and the Future of Cities,” June 11, 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZppWV6w4XA. 6. Tom Ravenscroft, “Zaha Hadid Architects Reveals Design for Skyscraper
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-us/total-freedom-5ee930676b65. 8. Patrik Schumacher and Arno Brandlhuber, “Land of the Free Forces,” ARCH+ (2018): 97. 9. Schumacher and Taghizadegan, “The Failure of Urban Planning and the Future of Cities.” 10. Patrik Schumacher, “Increasing Freedom and Prosperity by Means of Private Cities,” Liberland Press, July 25, 2020, https://liberlandpress.com
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-prosperity-by-means-of-private-cities/. 11. Schumacher and Kalliala, “Total Freedom.” 12. Patrik Schumacher, “Liberland’s Prospective Urban Planning Regime,” Liberland Press, February 19, 2020, https://liberlandpress.com/2020/02/19/liberlands-prospective-urban-planning-regime/. 13. Edward Ongweso Jr., “Inside Liberland, a Crypto-Libertarian Micronation in Eastern Europe,” Vice, April 29, 2022
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&A (PFS 2017), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-negu-E0E. 16. Schumacher, “After the Libertarian Revolution.” 17. Schumacher and Taghizadegan, “The Failure of Urban Planning and the Future of Cities.” 18. Mertha, “‘Fragmented Authoritarianism 2.0’: Political Pluralization in the Chinese Policy Process.” 19. Will Doig, High-Speed Empire: Chinese
Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities, Spatial Computing and Why Virtual Worlds Mean Real Business
by David G. W. Birch and Victoria Richardson · 28 Apr 2024 · 249pp · 74,201 words
to build the other way around! The Spectra project is exploring the idea of building a VR ‘digital sibling’ city in order to experiment with urban planning and community practices before implementing them in physical cities. It also plans to host VR entertainment and gaming to foster interconnection between cyber inhabitants (Rzepecki
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Singapore, adding data from laser-scanning aircraft and vehicles to combine all relevant data sets, allowing citizens to view and verify information to help inform urban planning. Completed in 2023, it is the first digital twin of an entire country – a highly detailed 3D representation used across government agencies to support decision
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on the next stage of the project: a national subsurface digital twin of Singapore. The digital twin’s wide variety of uses include the following. Urban planning. With the digital twin, urban planners can simulate the impact of new infrastructure projects, from skyscrapers to public parks, and make more informed decisions. Disaster
Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe
by Jared Sullivan · 15 Oct 2024 · 545pp · 147,673 words
corporation clothed with the power of Government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise.” Roosevelt’s expansive vision drew on the urban-planning ideas pioneered by Alfred E. Smith, his predecessor as New York governor, who pushed for the creation of the Port of New York Authority and
Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
by Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck · 14 Sep 2020 · 339pp · 103,546 words
Gates, publicly proclaiming an open and innovative future for Saudi Arabia. He would make massive commitments to virtual reality and solar power and cutting-edge urban planning. “The most influential Arab leader. Transforming the world at 32,” blared the cover of an unfamiliar magazine titled The New Kingdom (priced at $13.99
Women Leaders at Work: Untold Tales of Women Achieving Their Ambitions
by Elizabeth Ghaffari · 5 Dec 2011 · 493pp · 139,845 words
solicit legal work deliberately—it happened because people who needed legal advice were aware that I did that kind of work. I did environmental work, urban planning, and administrative law. A lot of the work I did related to permitting and development issues concerning the city charter, the regulations, or California law
Thinking in Bets
by Annie Duke · 6 Feb 2018 · 288pp · 81,253 words
“found that prospective hindsight—imagining that an event has already occurred—increases the ability to correctly identify reasons for future outcomes by 30%.” A huge urban planning project requires enormous amounts of money, materials, commitment—and the vision to work backward from a distant future goal. When Frederick Law Olmsted designed Central
Keeping at It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government
by Paul Volcker and Christine Harper · 30 Oct 2018 · 363pp · 98,024 words
illegible writing into readable text and somehow ensuring that Christine’s additions and subtractions are faithfully recorded. Melanie, soon to embark on a career in urban planning, has played a valuable role in organizing my office and my time. I wish her well in her new endeavors. As mentioned, I relied on
Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge From Small Discoveries
by Peter Sims · 18 Apr 2011 · 207pp · 57,959 words
How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of Private Spaceflight
by Julian Guthrie · 19 Sep 2016
Quicksilver
by Neal Stephenson · 9 Sep 2004 · 1,178pp · 388,227 words
The confusion
by Neal Stephenson · 13 Apr 2004 · 1,020pp · 339,564 words
Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making for an Unknowable Future
by Mervyn King and John Kay · 5 Mar 2020 · 807pp · 154,435 words
The Mission: A True Story
by David W. Brown · 26 Jan 2021
The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge
by Faisal Islam · 28 Aug 2013 · 475pp · 155,554 words
The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton · 1 Jan 2000 · 225pp · 61,814 words
The Full Catastrophe: Travels Among the New Greek Ruins
by James Angelos · 1 Jun 2015 · 278pp · 93,540 words
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
by Alan Cooper · 24 Feb 2004 · 193pp · 98,671 words
An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent
by Owen Matthews · 21 Mar 2019 · 589pp · 162,849 words
All the Money in the World
by Peter W. Bernstein · 17 Dec 2008 · 538pp · 147,612 words
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
by Rebecca Henderson · 27 Apr 2020 · 330pp · 99,044 words
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal · 21 Feb 2017 · 407pp · 90,238 words
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
by Jon Ronson · 9 Mar 2015 · 229pp · 67,869 words
Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States (P.S.)
by Pete Jordan · 1 May 2007 · 372pp · 96,474 words
This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World: A Practitioners' Handbook
by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence and Jakob Schneider · 12 Jan 2018 · 704pp · 182,312 words
The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativityand Will Det Ermine the Fate of the Human Race
by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long · 13 Aug 2018 · 287pp · 78,609 words
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
by Steven Johnson · 11 May 2020 · 299pp · 79,739 words
Personal Kanban: Mapping Work, Navigating Life
by Jim Benson and Tonianne Demaria Barry · 2 Feb 2011 · 147pp · 37,622 words
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New
by Noam Chomsky · 7 Apr 2015
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright · 26 Sep 2006 · 604pp · 177,329 words
Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits
by Kevin Roose · 18 Feb 2014 · 269pp · 83,307 words
The Abandonment of the West
by Michael Kimmage · 21 Apr 2020 · 378pp · 121,495 words
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Finally Solving the Mystery of Life
by Paul Davies · 31 Jan 2019 · 253pp · 83,473 words
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · 7 Oct 2024 · 336pp · 104,899 words
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu · 2 Nov 2010 · 418pp · 128,965 words
Makers at Work: Folks Reinventing the World One Object or Idea at a Time
by Steven Osborn · 17 Sep 2013 · 310pp · 34,482 words
All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Video Games Conquered Pop Culture
by Harold Goldberg · 5 Apr 2011 · 329pp · 106,831 words
I See You Made an Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories From the Edge of 50
by Annabelle Gurwitch · 6 Mar 2014 · 200pp · 64,050 words
Half Empty
by David Rakoff · 20 Sep 2010 · 181pp · 62,775 words
Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World
by Srdja Popovic and Matthew Miller · 3 Feb 2015 · 202pp · 8,448 words
The Oil Kings: How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East
by Andrew Scott Cooper · 8 Aug 2011
Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation
by Sophie Pedder · 20 Jun 2018 · 337pp · 101,440 words
Gnomon
by Nick Harkaway · 18 Oct 2017 · 778pp · 239,744 words
Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
by Peter Morville · 14 May 2014 · 165pp · 50,798 words
Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey Silverglate · 6 Jun 2011 · 389pp · 136,320 words
Leonardo Da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson · 16 Oct 2017 · 799pp · 187,221 words
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann · 17 Jun 2019
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
by Bruce Schneier · 2 Mar 2015 · 598pp · 134,339 words
The Rough Guide to Jerusalem
by Daniel Jacobs · 10 Jan 2000
vN: The First Machine Dynasty (The Machine Dynasty Book 1)
by Madeline Ashby · 28 Jul 2012 · 343pp · 93,544 words
Frommer's Egypt
by Matthew Carrington · 8 Sep 2008
The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
by Tom Burgis · 24 Mar 2015 · 413pp · 119,379 words
Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
by Sharon Beder · 1 Jan 1997 · 651pp · 161,270 words
Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder, and Going Global
by Rebecca Fannin · 2 Sep 2019 · 269pp · 70,543 words
Mbs: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
by Ben Hubbard · 10 Mar 2020
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
by Stephen Witt · 8 Apr 2025 · 260pp · 82,629 words
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
by Eben Kirksey · 10 Nov 2020 · 599pp · 98,564 words
A People’s History of Computing in the United States
by Joy Lisi Rankin
High Steel: The Daring Men Who Built the World's Greatest Skyline
by Jim Rasenberger · 15 Mar 2004 · 397pp · 114,841 words
The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
by Janek Wasserman · 23 Sep 2019 · 470pp · 130,269 words
No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
by Linsey McGoey · 14 Apr 2015 · 324pp · 93,606 words
The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
by Peter Lunenfeld · 31 Mar 2011 · 239pp · 56,531 words
Fodor's Venice and Northern Italy
by Fodor's · 22 Mar 2011
Electric City
by Thomas Hager · 18 May 2021 · 248pp · 79,444 words
Lonely Planet Egypt
by Lonely Planet · 476pp · 132,840 words
Moon Oregon Trail Road Trip: Historic Sites, Small Towns, and Scenic Landscapes Along the Legendary Westward Route
by Katrina Emery and Moon Travel Guides · 27 Jul 2020 · 608pp · 184,703 words
The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
by Steve Coll · 29 Mar 2009 · 769pp · 224,916 words
Venice: A New History
by Thomas F. Madden · 24 Oct 2012 · 466pp · 146,982 words
The End of Growth
by Jeff Rubin · 2 Sep 2013 · 262pp · 83,548 words
What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing
by Ed Finn · 10 Mar 2017 · 285pp · 86,853 words
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
by William Easterly · 4 Mar 2014 · 483pp · 134,377 words
Bad Science
by Ben Goldacre · 1 Jan 2008 · 322pp · 107,576 words
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson · 26 Mar 2019 · 499pp · 144,278 words
The Profiteers
by Sally Denton · 556pp · 141,069 words
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2011
by Steve Coll · 23 Feb 2004 · 956pp · 288,981 words
Nobody's Perfect: Writings From the New Yorker
by Anthony Lane · 26 Aug 2002 · 879pp · 309,222 words
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
by Mark Hertsgaard · 15 Jan 2011 · 326pp · 48,727 words
The Driver: My Dangerous Pursuit of Speed and Truth in the Outlaw Racing World
by Alexander Roy · 13 Oct 2008 · 446pp · 108,844 words
Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy
by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght · 20 Mar 2017
Frommer's Mexico 2008
by David Baird, Juan Cristiano, Lynne Bairstow and Emily Hughey Quinn · 21 Sep 2007
Building Habitats on the Moon: Engineering Approaches to Lunar Settlements
by Haym Benaroya · 12 Jan 2018 · 571pp · 124,448 words
With a Little Help
by Cory Efram Doctorow, Jonathan Coulton and Russell Galen · 7 Dec 2010 · 549pp · 116,200 words
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
by Eric Posner and E. Weyl · 14 May 2018 · 463pp · 105,197 words
One Day in December: Celia Sánchez and the Cuban Revolution
by Nancy Stout · 2 Feb 2013 · 519pp · 160,846 words
Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
by Joshua Green · 17 Jul 2017 · 296pp · 78,112 words
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
by Witold Rybczynski · 1 Jan 1999
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
by Katherine Eban · 13 May 2019 · 510pp · 141,188 words
Frommer's Israel
by Robert Ullian · 31 Mar 1998
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
by Stephanie Kelton · 8 Jun 2020 · 338pp · 104,684 words
Extreme Rambling: Walking Israel's Separation Barrier. For Fun.
by Mark Thomas · 13 Apr 2011 · 359pp · 104,870 words
740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
by Michael Gross · 18 Dec 2007 · 601pp · 193,225 words
The Investment Checklist: The Art of In-Depth Research
by Michael Shearn · 8 Nov 2011 · 400pp · 124,678 words
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe · 6 Dec 2016 · 254pp · 76,064 words
The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977
by Gershom Gorenberg · 1 Jan 2006 · 600pp · 165,682 words
You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All
by Adrian Hon · 14 Sep 2022 · 371pp · 107,141 words
Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
by Cary McClelland · 8 Oct 2018 · 225pp · 70,241 words
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar
by Paul Theroux · 9 Sep 2008 · 651pp · 190,224 words
Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
by Daniel Sokatch · 18 Oct 2021 · 556pp · 95,955 words
Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer
by Duncan J. Watts · 28 Mar 2011 · 327pp · 103,336 words
Secrets of the Sprakkar
by Eliza Reid · 15 Jul 2021
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
by Peter Frankopan · 14 Jun 2018 · 352pp · 80,030 words
When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe · 3 Oct 2022 · 689pp · 134,457 words
The Long History of the Future: Why Tomorrow's Technology Still Isn't Here
by Nicole Kobie · 3 Jul 2024 · 348pp · 119,358 words
On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City
by Evan Friss · 6 May 2019 · 314pp · 85,637 words
Lonely Planet Kenya
by Lonely Planet
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
by Ken Jennings · 19 Sep 2011 · 367pp · 99,765 words
The Rough Guide to Barcelona 8
by Jules Brown and Rough Guides · 2 Feb 2009 · 344pp · 161,076 words
Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers
by Jason M. Barr · 13 May 2024 · 292pp · 107,998 words
Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy
by Alexandrea J. Ravenelle · 12 Mar 2019 · 349pp · 98,309 words
Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies
by Judith Stein · 30 Apr 2010 · 497pp · 143,175 words
Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits
by Richard Davies · 4 Sep 2019 · 412pp · 128,042 words
The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape
by Brian Ladd · 1 Jan 1997
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
by Daniel Immerwahr · 19 Feb 2019
The Rough Guide to Florence & the Best of Tuscany
by Tim Jepson, Jonathan Buckley and Rough Guides · 2 Mar 2009 · 416pp · 204,183 words
Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
by Diane Coyle · 11 Oct 2021 · 305pp · 75,697 words
Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now
by Vincent Ialenti · 22 Sep 2020 · 224pp · 69,593 words
What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson · 17 Sep 2024 · 588pp · 160,825 words
This Chair Rocks: A Manifiesto Against Ageism
by Ashton Applewhite · 10 Feb 2016 · 312pp · 84,421 words
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
by Sara C. Bronin · 30 Sep 2024 · 230pp · 74,949 words
Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975
by Hannah Arendt · 6 Mar 2018 · 653pp · 218,559 words
Spain
by Lonely Planet Publications and Damien Simonis · 14 May 1997
The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
by Ilan Pappe · 30 Apr 2012 · 387pp · 120,092 words
Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
by Steven Higashide · 9 Oct 2019 · 195pp · 52,701 words
Italy
by Damien Simonis · 31 Jul 2010
Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World
by Kwasi Kwarteng · 14 Aug 2011 · 670pp · 169,815 words
City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco
by Chester W. Hartman and Sarah Carnochan · 15 Feb 2002 · 518pp · 170,126 words
Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game
by Paul Midler · 18 Mar 2009 · 254pp · 14,795 words
Great Britain
by David Else and Fionn Davenport · 2 Jan 2007
Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980
by Rick Perlstein · 17 Aug 2020
Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World
by Michael Schuman · 8 Jun 2020
Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
by Kurt Andersen · 14 Sep 2020 · 486pp · 150,849 words
Last Trains: Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England
by Charles Loft · 27 Mar 2013 · 383pp · 98,179 words
Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet
by Roger Scruton · 30 Apr 2014 · 426pp · 118,913 words
Frommer's England 2011: With Wales
by Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince · 2 Jan 2010
Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
by Alex Wright · 6 Jun 2014
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb · 20 Feb 2018 · 306pp · 82,765 words
State of Emergency: The Way We Were
by Dominic Sandbrook · 29 Sep 2010 · 932pp · 307,785 words
Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri · 9 Mar 2000 · 1,015pp · 170,908 words
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo · 25 Apr 2011 · 370pp · 112,602 words
City on the Verge
by Mark Pendergrast · 5 May 2017 · 425pp · 117,334 words
Frommer's Mexico 2009
by David Baird, Lynne Bairstow, Joy Hepp and Juan Christiano · 2 Sep 2008 · 803pp · 415,953 words
Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain
by John Grindrod · 2 Nov 2013 · 578pp · 141,373 words
Imagining India
by Nandan Nilekani · 25 Nov 2008 · 777pp · 186,993 words
Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil
by Hamish McKenzie · 30 Sep 2017 · 307pp · 90,634 words
The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
by Evgeny Morozov · 16 Nov 2010 · 538pp · 141,822 words
Tel Aviv 2015: The Retro Travel Guide
by Claudia Stein · 30 Mar 2015 · 143pp · 43,096 words
Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan
by Lynne B. Sagalyn · 8 Sep 2016 · 1,797pp · 390,698 words
Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood · 2 Jan 2009
The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World
by Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic · 5 Jan 2010 · 411pp · 108,119 words
After the Berlin Wall
by Christopher Hilton · 15 Dec 2011 · 306pp · 92,704 words
Ireland (Lonely Planet, 9th Edition)
by Fionn Davenport · 15 Jan 2010
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
by Joshua B. Freeman · 27 Feb 2018 · 538pp · 145,243 words
Fodor's Normandy, Brittany & the Best of the North With Paris
by Fodor's · 18 Apr 2011
In the City of Bikes: The Story of the Amsterdam Cyclist
by Pete Jordan · 20 Aug 2012 · 407pp · 117,763 words
Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis
by Leo Hollis · 31 Mar 2013 · 385pp · 118,314 words
Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest · 17 Oct 2014 · 292pp · 85,151 words
Pauline Frommer's London: Spend Less, See More
by Jason Cochran · 5 Feb 2007 · 388pp · 211,074 words
Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
by Alex Rosenblat · 22 Oct 2018 · 343pp · 91,080 words
Bricks & Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made
by Tom Wilkinson · 21 Jul 2014 · 341pp · 89,986 words
Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling
by Carlton Reid · 14 Jun 2017 · 309pp · 84,038 words
Israel & the Palestinian Territories Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
Stacy Mitchell
by Big-Box Swindle The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses (2006)
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
by Dan Heath · 3 Mar 2020
Egypt Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet
Lonely Planet's 2016 Best in Travel
by Lonely Planet · 30 Sep 2015 · 190pp · 50,133 words
A Paradise Built in Hell: Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by Rebecca Solnit · 31 Aug 2010
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
by Anne Applebaum · 30 Oct 2012 · 934pp · 232,651 words
The Rough Guide to Ireland
by Clements, Paul · 2 Jun 2015
Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
by David G. Blanchflower · 12 Apr 2021 · 566pp · 160,453 words
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
by Stephen Budiansky · 10 May 2021 · 406pp · 108,266 words
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