Městské

Města pulzují nekonečnými možnostmi, zatímco architekti, urbanisté a vizionáři přetvářejí naše městské krajiny a čelí výzvám moderního velkoměstského života. Tyto knihy zkoumají, jak chytrý design, technologie a plánování zaměřené na člověka mohou proměnit betonové džungle v živé, udržitelné komunity, kde miliony lidí prosperují.

Městské Shrnutí knih

The Kid

od Sapphire

Orphaned at nine, betrayed by every system, a boy finds his body's only language is dance.

2.70

2 000+

Současná literatura

Literární fikce

Afroamerické

Imerzivní

The Kid

Orphaned at nine, betrayed by every system, a boy finds his body's only language is dance.

od Sapphire 2003 374 stran

2.70

2 000+ hodnocení

Současná literatura

Literární fikce

Afroamerické

Bowling Alone

od Robert D. Putnam • 2000

The clubs emptied and Americans stopped voting. The damage goes deeper than loneliness.

3.85

9 000+

Sociologie

Politika

Historie

Bowling Alone

The clubs emptied and Americans stopped voting. The damage goes deeper than loneliness.

od Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 stran

3.85

9 000+ hodnocení

Sociologie

Politika

Historie

Liquid Times

od Zygmunt Bauman • 2007

The stable world of careers, communities, and safety nets is gone, replaced by a permanent churn.

3.87

1 000+

Sociologie

Filozofie

Politika

Liquid Times

The stable world of careers, communities, and safety nets is gone, replaced by a permanent churn.

od Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 stran

3.87

1 000+ hodnocení

Sociologie

Filozofie

Politika

Evicted

od Matthew Desmond • 2016

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

4.47

100 000+

Sociologie

Sociální spravedlnost

Chudoba

Evicted

Poverty isn't the cause of eviction. Eviction is the cause of poverty, and the market profits.

od Matthew Desmond 2016 418 stran

4.47

100 000+ hodnocení

Sociologie

Sociální spravedlnost

Chudoba

The New Geography Of Jobs

od Enrico Moretti • 2012

A single innovation job creates five local ones, but only where the cluster already exists.

4.03

2 000+

Ekonomie

Podnikání

Sociologie

The New Geography Of Jobs

A single innovation job creates five local ones, but only where the cluster already exists.

od Enrico Moretti 2012 304 stran

4.03

2 000+ hodnocení

Ekonomie

Podnikání

Sociologie

Černé echo

od Michael Connelly • 1992

Harry Bosch's dead comrade pulls him into a bank heist where the FBI is the enemy.

4.14

200 000+

Detektivky

Krimi

Detektivní

Černé echo

Harry Bosch's dead comrade pulls him into a bank heist where the FBI is the enemy.

od Michael Connelly 1992 482 stran

4.14

200 000+ hodnocení

Detektivky

Krimi

Detektivní

The Cross and the Switchblade

od David Wilkerson • 1963

A Life photo pulls a rural pastor into Brooklyn's gangs, armed with prayer and an impossible love.

4.27

60 000+

Křesťanství

Křesťanské

Víra

The Cross and the Switchblade

A Life photo pulls a rural pastor into Brooklyn's gangs, armed with prayer and an impossible love.

od David Wilkerson 1963 176 stran

4.27

60 000+ hodnocení

Křesťanství

Křesťanské

Víra

The Flea Palace

od Elif Shafak • 2002

At a decaying Istanbul apartment building, a pest control van unearths the tenants' tangled secrets.

3.39

7 000+

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

World Literature

The Flea Palace

At a decaying Istanbul apartment building, a pest control van unearths the tenants' tangled secrets.

od Elif Shafak 2002 448 stran

3.39

7 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

World Literature

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

od Damilare Kuku • 2024

A dozen women survive Lagos dating: charming men, secret lives, and the cost of starting over.

4.00

9 000+

Povídky

Afrika

Současná literatura

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

A dozen women survive Lagos dating: charming men, secret lives, and the cost of starting over.

od Damilare Kuku 2024

4.00

9 000+ hodnocení

Povídky

Afrika

Současná literatura

Wind Breaker 2

od Satoru Nii • 2021

A lone wolf arrives at a delinquent high school where the strongest defend the weak.

4.38

1 000+

Manga

Pro mladé dospělé

Akční

Wind Breaker 2

A lone wolf arrives at a delinquent high school where the strongest defend the weak.

od Satoru Nii 2021 192 stran

4.38

1 000+ hodnocení

Manga

Pro mladé dospělé

Akční

Nomad Century

od Gaia Vince • 2022

The tropics are becoming unlivable. A mass migration northward is an opportunity, not a crisis.

3.84

1 000+

Věda

Životní prostředí

Změna klimatu

Nomad Century

The tropics are becoming unlivable. A mass migration northward is an opportunity, not a crisis.

od Gaia Vince 2022 269 stran

3.84

1 000+ hodnocení

Věda

Životní prostředí

Změna klimatu

Evenings and Weekends

od Oisín McKenna • 2024

London swelters. A whale beaches in the Thames. Three friends choose between desire and survival.

3.75

60 000+

Současná literatura

Literární fikce

Queer

Evenings and Weekends

London swelters. A whale beaches in the Thames. Three friends choose between desire and survival.

od Oisín McKenna 2024 352 stran

3.75

60 000+ hodnocení

Současná literatura

Literární fikce

Queer

The Warmth of Other Suns

od Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

4.48

100 000+

Historie

Rasa

Afroamerické

The Warmth of Other Suns

Three lives: a sharecropper, a picker, a surgeon. Their flight from the South rewired America.

od Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 stran

4.48

100 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Rasa

Afroamerické

Triumph of the City

od Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

Poverty flocks to cities because cities are the escape route. The economic case for density.

3.91

6 000+

Ekonomie

Sociologie

Městské

Triumph of the City

Poverty flocks to cities because cities are the escape route. The economic case for density.

od Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 stran

3.91

6 000+ hodnocení

Ekonomie

Sociologie

Městské

Tattoos on the Heart

od Gregory Boyle • 2009

Gang programs fail because they're conditional. One LA priest bet on love that refuses to quit.

4.49

30 000+

Memoáry

Náboženství

Spiritualita

Tattoos on the Heart

Gang programs fail because they're conditional. One LA priest bet on love that refuses to quit.

od Gregory Boyle 2009 240 stran

4.49

30 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Náboženství

Spiritualita

Smart Cities

od Anthony M. Townsend • 2013

Corporations are selling smart cities. A movement of civic hackers has a better blueprint.

3.61

500+

Technologie

Města

Politika

Smart Cities

Corporations are selling smart cities. A movement of civic hackers has a better blueprint.

od Anthony M. Townsend 2013 400 stran

3.61

500+ hodnocení

Technologie

Města

Politika

The Power Broker

od Robert A. Caro • 1974

How one unelected man built New York, bulldozed entire communities, and answered to no one.

4.53

29 000+

Historie

Biografie

Politika

The Power Broker

How one unelected man built New York, bulldozed entire communities, and answered to no one.

od Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 stran

4.53

29 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Biografie

Politika

The Economy of Cities

od Jane Jacobs • 1969

Cities didn't follow farms; farms followed cities. That reversal explains every economic boom.

4.09

1 000+

Ekonomie

Městské

Sociologie

The Economy of Cities

Cities didn't follow farms; farms followed cities. That reversal explains every economic boom.

od Jane Jacobs 1969 288 stran

4.09

1 000+ hodnocení

Ekonomie

Městské

Sociologie

Poverty Safari

od Darren McGarvey • 2017

Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.

4.01

6 000+

Politika

Memoáry

Sociologie

Poverty Safari

Poverty isn't just broke. It's trauma, addiction, and a mind that fights its own rescue.

od Darren McGarvey 2017 257 stran

4.01

6 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Memoáry

Sociologie

Scorpions

od Walter Dean Myers • 1995

A Harlem boy inherits his brother's gang and a gun, learning their true cost.

3.8

2 000+

Pro mladé dospělé

Afroamerické

Krimi

Scorpions

A Harlem boy inherits his brother's gang and a gun, learning their true cost.

od Walter Dean Myers 1995 216 stran

3.8

2 000+ hodnocení

Pro mladé dospělé

Afroamerické

Krimi

Acceleration

od Graham McNamee • 2003

In the lost and found, a guilt-ridden teen uncovers a killer's diary and a countdown to murder.

3.74

5 000+

Pro mladé dospělé

Thriller

Detektivky

Acceleration

In the lost and found, a guilt-ridden teen uncovers a killer's diary and a countdown to murder.

od Graham McNamee 2003 210 stran

3.74

5 000+ hodnocení

Pro mladé dospělé

Thriller

Detektivky

Money Hungry

od Sharon G. Flake • 2001

Raspberry's money obsession is a wall she builds against the homelessness she barely escaped.

4.10

4 000+

Pro mladé dospělé

Pro starší děti

Současná literatura

Money Hungry

Raspberry's money obsession is a wall she builds against the homelessness she barely escaped.

od Sharon G. Flake 2001 188 stran

4.10

4 000+ hodnocení

Pro mladé dospělé

Pro starší děti

Současná literatura

Against the smart city

od Adam Greenfield • 2013

Smart cities sell efficiency but deliver surveillance. The real operating system is people.

3.96

132

Městské

City

Technologie

Against the smart city

Smart cities sell efficiency but deliver surveillance. The real operating system is people.

od Adam Greenfield 2013 152 stran

3.96

132 hodnocení

Městské

City

Technologie

The Beautiful Struggle

od Ta-Nehisi Coates • 2008

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

4.08

11 000+

Memoáry

Autobiografie

Rasa

The Beautiful Struggle

Between Black Panther discipline and Baltimore's street code, a boy fights to write his own story.

od Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 stran

4.08

11 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Autobiografie

Rasa

Tactical Urbanism

od Mike Lydon • 2014

How to hack your city with paint, planters, and pop-up parks, and prove change is possible now.

3.99

315

Města

Městské

Design

Tactical Urbanism

How to hack your city with paint, planters, and pop-up parks, and prove change is possible now.

od Mike Lydon 2014 256 stran

3.99

315 hodnocení

Města

Městské

Design

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

od Carmelo Anthony • 2021

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

4.07

1 000+

Memoáry

Sport

Biografie

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

Grief unnamed, a mother's open door, a blacktop sanctuary: surviving the projects before the NBA.

od Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 stran

4.07

1 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Sport

Biografie

City of Gold

od Jim Krane • 2009

Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.

3.97

500+

Historie

Politika

Ekonomie

City of Gold

Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.

od Jim Krane 2009 368 stran

3.97

500+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Ekonomie

Marry Me, Stranger

od Novoneel Chakraborty • 2014

A stalker in Mumbai knows her childhood nickname and demands she marry a stranger.

3.97

4 000+

Thriller

Detektivky

Napětí

Marry Me, Stranger

A stalker in Mumbai knows her childhood nickname and demands she marry a stranger.

od Novoneel Chakraborty 2014 268 stran

3.97

4 000+ hodnocení

Thriller

Detektivky

Napětí

Flesh and Stone

od Richard Sennett • 1996

Why Western cities silence the body, and how the body fights back in stone.

4.28

500+

Historie

Architektura

Městské

Flesh and Stone

Why Western cities silence the body, and how the body fights back in stone.

od Richard Sennett 1996 432 stran

4.28

500+ hodnocení

Historie

Architektura

Městské

Startup Communities

od Brad Feld • 2012

Startup communities are built, not copied. The entrepreneur's guide to growing one in your own city.

4.01

2 000+

Podnikání

Leadership

Startup Communities

Startup communities are built, not copied. The entrepreneur's guide to growing one in your own city.

od Brad Feld 2012 188 stran

4.01

2 000+ hodnocení

Podnikání

Leadership

A Moment of Silence

od Sister Souljah • 2015

Midnight kills a predator to save his sister. In jail, his only weapon is silence.

4.32

1 000+

Romantika

Městské

Afroamerické

A Moment of Silence

Midnight kills a predator to save his sister. In jail, his only weapon is silence.

od Sister Souljah 2015 544 stran

4.32

1 000+ hodnocení

Romantika

Městské

Afroamerické

Call of the Mall

od Paco Underhill • 2004

Your local mall was engineered to keep you spending. A retail anthropologist maps exactly how.

3.63

1 000+

Podnikání

Sociologie

Psychologie

Call of the Mall

Your local mall was engineered to keep you spending. A retail anthropologist maps exactly how.

od Paco Underhill 2004 240 stran

3.63

1 000+ hodnocení

Podnikání

Sociologie

Psychologie

The Sins of the Fathers

od Lawrence Block • 1976

A disgraced ex-cop turned PI investigates a murdered call girl after the accused hangs himself.

3.87

12 000+

Detektivky

Krimi

Noir

The Sins of the Fathers

A disgraced ex-cop turned PI investigates a murdered call girl after the accused hangs himself.

od Lawrence Block 1976 182 stran

3.87

12 000+ hodnocení

Detektivky

Krimi

Noir

The Basketball Diaries

od Jim Carroll • 1978

A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.

3.99

31 000+

Memoáry

Autobiografie

Drogy

The Basketball Diaries

A New York basketball prodigy keeps a diary as the court gives way to the needle.

od Jim Carroll 1978 224 stran

3.99

31 000+ hodnocení

Memoáry

Autobiografie

Drogy

The Big Truck that Went By

od Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

4.12

1 000+

Historie

Politika

Sociologie

The Big Truck that Went By

When the world rushed to save Haiti, it brought a cholera epidemic with it.

od Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 stran

4.12

1 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Sociologie

Capital City

od Samuel Stein • 2019

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

3.92

1 000+

Politika

Ekonomie

Města

Capital City

Gentrification is not a market outcome. It is policy, written by the real estate industry.

od Samuel Stein 2019 202 stran

3.92

1 000+ hodnocení

Politika

Ekonomie

Města

The Hour of the Star

od Clarice Lispector • 1977

An invisible Rio typist wants to be noticed; a fortune-teller promises she will be.

4.11

58 000+

Klasika

Literární fikce

Literatura

The Hour of the Star

An invisible Rio typist wants to be noticed; a fortune-teller promises she will be.

od Clarice Lispector 1977 96 stran

4.11

58 000+ hodnocení

Klasika

Literární fikce

Literatura

A Renegade History of the United States

od Thaddeus Russell • 2010

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

3.81

1 000+

Historie

Politika

Sociologie

A Renegade History of the United States

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

od Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 stran

3.81

1 000+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Sociologie

Radicalized

od Cory Doctorow • 2019

When her smart toaster bricks itself, a refugee discovers the whole building is a corporate jail.

4.03

8 000+

Science fiction

Dystopie

Povídky

Radicalized

When her smart toaster bricks itself, a refugee discovers the whole building is a corporate jail.

od Cory Doctorow 2019 304 stran

4.03

8 000+ hodnocení

Science fiction

Dystopie

Povídky

Radical Cities

od Justin McGuirk • 2014

The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.

4.27

434

Architektura

Města

Latin America

Radical Cities

The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.

od Justin McGuirk 2014 304 stran

4.27

434 hodnocení

Architektura

Města

Latin America

God Hates Us All

od Hank Moody • 2009

A cynical young man deals pot from the Chelsea Hotel, chasing love while avoiding adulthood.

3.46

4 000+

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Americké

God Hates Us All

A cynical young man deals pot from the Chelsea Hotel, chasing love while avoiding adulthood.

od Hank Moody 2009 200 stran

3.46

4 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Současná literatura

Americké

Reliquary

od Douglas Preston • 1997

When headless corpses surface in New York, the trail dives underground, where a mutant cult breeds.

4.04

50 000+

Thriller

Horor

Detektivky

Reliquary

When headless corpses surface in New York, the trail dives underground, where a mutant cult breeds.

od Douglas Preston 1997 464 stran

4.04

50 000+ hodnocení

Thriller

Horor

Detektivky

Glory in Death

od J.D. Robb • 1995

A tough detective chases a serial killer whose trail leads straight to the man she loves.

4.27

73 000+

Romantický suspense

Detektivky

Romantika

Glory in Death

A tough detective chases a serial killer whose trail leads straight to the man she loves.

od J.D. Robb 1995 296 stran

4.27

73 000+ hodnocení

Romantický suspense

Detektivky

Romantika

Speedboat

od Renata Adler • 1976

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

3.75

7 000+

Literární fikce

Klasika

Americké

Speedboat

A reporter drifts through parties, lovers, and city chaos, searching for whatever might hold weight.

od Renata Adler 1976 192 stran

3.75

7 000+ hodnocení

Literární fikce

Klasika

Americké

The Warriors

od Sol Yurick • 1965

After a gang truce shatters in gunfire, six boys fight their way home across New York.

3.37

2 000+

Krimi

Klasika

Literární fikce

The Warriors

After a gang truce shatters in gunfire, six boys fight their way home across New York.

od Sol Yurick 1965 212 stran

3.37

2 000+ hodnocení

Krimi

Klasika

Literární fikce

The Pleasures of the Damned

od Charles Bukowski • 2007

A hard-drinking poet buries his tenderness in the grit of L.A.'s gutters and bars.

4.35

7 000+

Poezie

Klasika

Literatura

The Pleasures of the Damned

A hard-drinking poet buries his tenderness in the grit of L.A.'s gutters and bars.

od Charles Bukowski 2007 557 stran

4.35

7 000+ hodnocení

Poezie

Klasika

Literatura

Streetfight

od Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

4.26

2 000+

Městské

Design

Politika

Streetfight

Paint, data, and political nerve: beating the car-first status quo.

od Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 stran

4.26

2 000+ hodnocení

Městské

Design

Politika

Ethic 3

od Ashley Antoinette • 2018

A street king's revenge cost him his family. Her faith is the only way back.

4.54

5 000+

Romantika

Městské

Afroamerické

Ethic 3

A street king's revenge cost him his family. Her faith is the only way back.

od Ashley Antoinette 2018 264 stran

4.54

5 000+ hodnocení

Romantika

Městské

Afroamerické

Dokonalá chemie

od Simone Elkeles • 2008

A gang member's bet to seduce the golden girl turns real the moment they become chemistry partners.

4.04

200 000+

Romantika

Pro mladé dospělé

Současná romance

Dokonalá chemie

A gang member's bet to seduce the golden girl turns real the moment they become chemistry partners.

od Simone Elkeles 2008 368 stran

4.04

200 000+ hodnocení

Romantika

Pro mladé dospělé

Současná romance

Municipal Dreams

od John Boughton • 2018

Britain built some of the world's best public housing, then spent 40 years dismantling it.

3.92

500+

Historie

Politika

Architektura

Municipal Dreams

Britain built some of the world's best public housing, then spent 40 years dismantling it.

od John Boughton 2018 336 stran

3.92

500+ hodnocení

Historie

Politika

Architektura

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