Urbano

Las ciudades vibran con posibilidades infinitas mientras arquitectos, urbanistas y visionarios reimaginan nuestros paisajes urbanos y enfrentan los desafíos de la vida metropolitana moderna. Estos libros exploran cómo el diseño inteligente, la tecnología y la planificación centrada en las personas pueden transformar junglas de concreto en comunidades vibrantes y sostenibles donde millones de personas prosperan.

Urbano Resúmenes de libros

El chico

por Sapphire

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

2.70

2000+

Contemporáneo

Ficción literaria

Afroamericano

Inmersivo

El chico

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

por Sapphire 2003 374 páginas

2.70

2000+ valoraciones

Contemporáneo

Ficción literaria

Afroamericano

Solo en la bolera

por Robert D. Putnam • 2000

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

3.85

9000+

Sociología

Política

Historia

Solo en la bolera

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

por Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 páginas

3.85

9000+ valoraciones

Sociología

Política

Historia

Liquid Times

por Zygmunt Bauman • 2007

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

3.87

1000+

Sociología

Filosofía

Política

Liquid Times

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

por Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 páginas

3.87

1000+ valoraciones

Sociología

Filosofía

Política

Evicted

por Matthew Desmond • 2016

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

4.47

100.000+

Sociología

Justicia social

Pobreza

Evicted

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

por Matthew Desmond 2016 418 páginas

4.47

100.000+ valoraciones

Sociología

Justicia social

Pobreza

The New Geography Of Jobs

por Enrico Moretti • 2012

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

4.03

2000+

Economía

Negocios

Sociología

The New Geography Of Jobs

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

por Enrico Moretti 2012 304 páginas

4.03

2000+ valoraciones

Economía

Negocios

Sociología

El eco negro

por Michael Connelly • 1992

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

4.14

200.000+

Misterio

Crimen

Detective

El eco negro

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

por Michael Connelly 1992 482 páginas

4.14

200.000+ valoraciones

Misterio

Crimen

Detective

The Cross and the Switchblade

por 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+

Cristianismo

Cristiano

The Cross and the Switchblade

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

por David Wilkerson 1963 176 páginas

4.27

60.000+ valoraciones

Cristianismo

Cristiano

The Flea Palace

por Elif Shafak • 2002

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

3.39

7000+

Ficción literaria

Contemporáneo

World Literature

The Flea Palace

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

por Elif Shafak 2002 448 páginas

3.39

7000+ valoraciones

Ficción literaria

Contemporáneo

World Literature

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

por Damilare Kuku • 2024

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

4.00

9000+

Cuentos cortos

África

Contemporáneo

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

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

por Damilare Kuku 2024

4.00

9000+ valoraciones

Cuentos cortos

África

Contemporáneo

Wind Breaker 2

por Satoru Nii • 2021

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

4.38

1000+

Manga

Juvenil

Acción

Wind Breaker 2

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

por Satoru Nii 2021 192 páginas

4.38

1000+ valoraciones

Manga

Juvenil

Acción

Nomad Century

por Gaia Vince • 2022

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

3.84

1000+

Ciencia

Medio ambiente

Cambio climático

Nomad Century

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

por Gaia Vince 2022 269 páginas

3.84

1000+ valoraciones

Ciencia

Medio ambiente

Cambio climático

Evenings and Weekends

por Oisín McKenna • 2024

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

3.75

60.000+

Contemporáneo

Ficción literaria

Queer

Evenings and Weekends

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

por Oisín McKenna 2024 352 páginas

3.75

60.000+ valoraciones

Contemporáneo

Ficción literaria

Queer

The Warmth of Other Suns

por Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

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

4.48

100.000+

Historia

Raza

Afroamericano

The Warmth of Other Suns

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

por Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 páginas

4.48

100.000+ valoraciones

Historia

Raza

Afroamericano

El triunfo de las ciudades

por Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

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

3.91

6000+

Economía

Sociología

Urbano

El triunfo de las ciudades

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

por Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 páginas

3.91

6000+ valoraciones

Economía

Sociología

Urbano

Tattoos on the Heart

por Gregory Boyle • 2009

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

4.49

30.000+

Memorias

Religión

Espiritualidad

Tattoos on the Heart

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

por Gregory Boyle 2009 240 páginas

4.49

30.000+ valoraciones

Memorias

Religión

Espiritualidad

Smart Cities

por Anthony M. Townsend • 2013

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

3.61

500+

Tecnología

Ciudades

Política

Smart Cities

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

por Anthony M. Townsend 2013 400 páginas

3.61

500+ valoraciones

Tecnología

Ciudades

Política

The Power Broker

por Robert A. Caro • 1974

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

4.53

29.000+

Historia

Biografía

Política

The Power Broker

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

por Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 páginas

4.53

29.000+ valoraciones

Historia

Biografía

Política

The Economy of Cities

por Jane Jacobs • 1969

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

4.09

1000+

Economía

Urbano

Sociología

The Economy of Cities

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

por Jane Jacobs 1969 288 páginas

4.09

1000+ valoraciones

Economía

Urbano

Sociología

Poverty Safari

por Darren McGarvey • 2017

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

4.01

6000+

Política

Memorias

Sociología

Poverty Safari

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

por Darren McGarvey 2017 257 páginas

4.01

6000+ valoraciones

Política

Memorias

Sociología

Scorpions

por Walter Dean Myers • 1995

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

3.8

2000+

Juvenil

Afroamericano

Crimen

Scorpions

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

por Walter Dean Myers 1995 216 páginas

3.8

2000+ valoraciones

Juvenil

Afroamericano

Crimen

Acceleration

por Graham McNamee • 2003

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

3.74

5000+

Juvenil

Thriller

Misterio

Acceleration

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

por Graham McNamee 2003 210 páginas

3.74

5000+ valoraciones

Juvenil

Thriller

Misterio

Money Hungry

por Sharon G. Flake • 2001

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

4.10

4000+

Juvenil

Preadolescente

Contemporáneo

Money Hungry

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

por Sharon G. Flake 2001 188 páginas

4.10

4000+ valoraciones

Juvenil

Preadolescente

Contemporáneo

Against the smart city

por Adam Greenfield • 2013

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

3.96

132

Urbano

City

Tecnología

Against the smart city

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

por Adam Greenfield 2013 152 páginas

3.96

132 valoraciones

Urbano

City

Tecnología

The Beautiful Struggle

por 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+

Memorias

Autobiografía

Raza

The Beautiful Struggle

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

por Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 páginas

4.08

11.000+ valoraciones

Memorias

Autobiografía

Raza

Tactical Urbanism

por Mike Lydon • 2014

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

3.99

315

Ciudades

Urbano

Diseño

Tactical Urbanism

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

por Mike Lydon 2014 256 páginas

3.99

315 valoraciones

Ciudades

Urbano

Diseño

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

por Carmelo Anthony • 2021

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

4.07

1000+

Memorias

Deportes

Biografía

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

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

por Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 páginas

4.07

1000+ valoraciones

Memorias

Deportes

Biografía

City of Gold

por Jim Krane • 2009

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

3.97

500+

Historia

Política

Economía

City of Gold

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

por Jim Krane 2009 368 páginas

3.97

500+ valoraciones

Historia

Política

Economía

Marry Me, Stranger

por Novoneel Chakraborty • 2014

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

3.97

4000+

Thriller

Misterio

Suspenso

Marry Me, Stranger

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

por Novoneel Chakraborty 2014 268 páginas

3.97

4000+ valoraciones

Thriller

Misterio

Suspenso

Flesh and Stone

por Richard Sennett • 1996

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

4.28

500+

Historia

Arquitectura

Urbano

Flesh and Stone

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

por Richard Sennett 1996 432 páginas

4.28

500+ valoraciones

Historia

Arquitectura

Urbano

Startup Communities

por Brad Feld • 2012

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

4.01

2000+

Negocios

Emprendimiento

Liderazgo

Startup Communities

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

por Brad Feld 2012 188 páginas

4.01

2000+ valoraciones

Negocios

Emprendimiento

Liderazgo

A Moment of Silence

por Sister Souljah • 2015

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

4.32

1000+

Romance

Urbano

Afroamericano

A Moment of Silence

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

por Sister Souljah 2015 544 páginas

4.32

1000+ valoraciones

Romance

Urbano

Afroamericano

Call of the Mall

por Paco Underhill • 2004

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

3.63

1000+

Negocios

Sociología

Psicología

Call of the Mall

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

por Paco Underhill 2004 240 páginas

3.63

1000+ valoraciones

Negocios

Sociología

Psicología

The Sins of the Fathers

por Lawrence Block • 1976

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

3.87

12.000+

Misterio

Crimen

Noir

The Sins of the Fathers

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

por Lawrence Block 1976 182 páginas

3.87

12.000+ valoraciones

Misterio

Crimen

Noir

The Basketball Diaries

por Jim Carroll • 1978

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

3.99

31.000+

Memorias

Autobiografía

Drogas

The Basketball Diaries

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

por Jim Carroll 1978 224 páginas

3.99

31.000+ valoraciones

Memorias

Autobiografía

Drogas

The Big Truck that Went By

por Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

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

4.12

1000+

Historia

Política

Sociología

The Big Truck that Went By

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

por Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 páginas

4.12

1000+ valoraciones

Historia

Política

Sociología

Capital City

por Samuel Stein • 2019

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

3.92

1000+

Política

Economía

Ciudades

Capital City

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

por Samuel Stein 2019 202 páginas

3.92

1000+ valoraciones

Política

Economía

Ciudades

The Hour of the Star

por Clarice Lispector • 1977

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

4.11

58.000+

Clásicos

Ficción literaria

Literatura

The Hour of the Star

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

por Clarice Lispector 1977 96 páginas

4.11

58.000+ valoraciones

Clásicos

Ficción literaria

Literatura

A Renegade History of the United States

por Thaddeus Russell • 2010

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

3.81

1000+

Historia

Política

Sociología

A Renegade History of the United States

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

por Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 páginas

3.81

1000+ valoraciones

Historia

Política

Sociología

Radicalized

por Cory Doctorow • 2019

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

4.03

8000+

Ciencia ficción

Distopía

Cuentos cortos

Radicalized

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

por Cory Doctorow 2019 304 páginas

4.03

8000+ valoraciones

Ciencia ficción

Distopía

Cuentos cortos

Radical Cities

por Justin McGuirk • 2014

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

4.27

434

Arquitectura

Ciudades

Latin America

Radical Cities

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

por Justin McGuirk 2014 304 páginas

4.27

434 valoraciones

Arquitectura

Ciudades

Latin America

God Hates Us All

por Hank Moody • 2009

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

3.46

4000+

Ficción literaria

Contemporáneo

Americano

God Hates Us All

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

por Hank Moody 2009 200 páginas

3.46

4000+ valoraciones

Ficción literaria

Contemporáneo

Americano

Reliquary

por Douglas Preston • 1997

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

4.04

50.000+

Thriller

Terror

Misterio

Reliquary

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

por Douglas Preston 1997 464 páginas

4.04

50.000+ valoraciones

Thriller

Terror

Misterio

Glory in Death

por J.D. Robb • 1995

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

4.27

73.000+

Suspense romántico

Misterio

Romance

Glory in Death

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

por J.D. Robb 1995 296 páginas

4.27

73.000+ valoraciones

Suspense romántico

Misterio

Romance

Speedboat

por Renata Adler • 1976

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

3.75

7000+

Ficción literaria

Clásicos

Americano

Speedboat

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

por Renata Adler 1976 192 páginas

3.75

7000+ valoraciones

Ficción literaria

Clásicos

Americano

The Warriors

por Sol Yurick • 1965

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

3.37

2000+

Crimen

Clásicos

Ficción literaria

The Warriors

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

por Sol Yurick 1965 212 páginas

3.37

2000+ valoraciones

Crimen

Clásicos

Ficción literaria

The Pleasures of the Damned

por Charles Bukowski • 2007

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

4.35

7000+

Poesía

Clásicos

Literatura

The Pleasures of the Damned

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

por Charles Bukowski 2007 557 páginas

4.35

7000+ valoraciones

Poesía

Clásicos

Literatura

Streetfight

por Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

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

4.26

2000+

Urbano

Diseño

Política

Streetfight

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

por Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 páginas

4.26

2000+ valoraciones

Urbano

Diseño

Política

Ethic 3

por Ashley Antoinette • 2018

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

4.54

5000+

Romance

Urbano

Afroamericano

Ethic 3

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

por Ashley Antoinette 2018 264 páginas

4.54

5000+ valoraciones

Romance

Urbano

Afroamericano

Química perfecta

por 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+

Romance

Juvenil

Romance contemporáneo

Química perfecta

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

por Simone Elkeles 2008 368 páginas

4.04

200.000+ valoraciones

Romance

Juvenil

Romance contemporáneo

Municipal Dreams

por John Boughton • 2018

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

3.92

500+

Historia

Política

Arquitectura

Municipal Dreams

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

por John Boughton 2018 336 páginas

3.92

500+ valoraciones

Historia

Política

Arquitectura

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