Urbānā

Pilsētas pulsē ar bezgalīgām iespējām, kamēr arhitekti, pilsētplānotāji un vizionāri no jauna iedomājas mūsu pilsētu ainavas un risina mūsdienu lielpilsētas dzīves izaicinājumus. Šīs grāmatas pēta, kā viedais dizains, tehnoloģijas un uz cilvēku orientēta plānošana var pārvērst betona džungļus dzīvespriecīgās, ilgtspējīgās kopienās, kurās miljoniem cilvēku plaukst.

Urbānā Grāmatu kopsavilkumi

The Kid

autors: Sapphire

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

2.70

2000+

Mūsdienu proza

Literatūras proza

Afroamerikāņu

Iespaidīgās

The Kid

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

autors: Sapphire 2003 374 lappuses

2.70

2000+ vērtējumi

Mūsdienu proza

Literatūras proza

Afroamerikāņu

Bowling Alone

autors: Robert D. Putnam • 2000

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

3.85

9000+

Socioloģija

Politika

Vēsture

Bowling Alone

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

autors: Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 lappuses

3.85

9000+ vērtējumi

Socioloģija

Politika

Vēsture

Liquid Times

autors: Zygmunt Bauman • 2007

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

3.87

1000+

Socioloģija

Filozofija

Politika

Liquid Times

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

autors: Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 lappuses

3.87

1000+ vērtējumi

Socioloģija

Filozofija

Politika

Evicted

autors: Matthew Desmond • 2016

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

4.47

100 000+

Socioloģija

Sociālais taisnīgums

Nabadzība

Evicted

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

autors: Matthew Desmond 2016 418 lappuses

4.47

100 000+ vērtējumi

Socioloģija

Sociālais taisnīgums

Nabadzība

The New Geography Of Jobs

autors: Enrico Moretti • 2012

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

4.03

2000+

Ekonomika

Bizness

Socioloģija

The New Geography Of Jobs

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

autors: Enrico Moretti 2012 304 lappuses

4.03

2000+ vērtējumi

Ekonomika

Bizness

Socioloģija

Melnā atbalss

autors: Michael Connelly • 1992

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

4.14

200 000+

Mistērija

Kriminālžanrs

Detektīvs

Melnā atbalss

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

autors: Michael Connelly 1992 482 lappuses

4.14

200 000+ vērtējumi

Mistērija

Kriminālžanrs

Detektīvs

The Cross and the Switchblade

autors: 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+

Kristietība

Kristīgā

Ticība

The Cross and the Switchblade

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

autors: David Wilkerson 1963 176 lappuses

4.27

60 000+ vērtējumi

Kristietība

Kristīgā

Ticība

The Flea Palace

autors: Elif Shafak • 2002

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

3.39

7000+

Literatūras proza

Mūsdienu proza

World Literature

The Flea Palace

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

autors: Elif Shafak 2002 448 lappuses

3.39

7000+ vērtējumi

Literatūras proza

Mūsdienu proza

World Literature

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

autors: Damilare Kuku • 2024

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

4.00

9000+

Īsstāsti

Āfrika

Mūsdienu proza

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

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

autors: Damilare Kuku 2024

4.00

9000+ vērtējumi

Īsstāsti

Āfrika

Mūsdienu proza

Wind Breaker 2

autors: Satoru Nii • 2021

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

4.38

1000+

Manga

Jauniešu literatūra

Asa sižeta

Wind Breaker 2

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

autors: Satoru Nii 2021 192 lappuses

4.38

1000+ vērtējumi

Manga

Jauniešu literatūra

Asa sižeta

Nomad Century

autors: Gaia Vince • 2022

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

3.84

1000+

Zinātne

Vide

Klimata pārmaiņas

Nomad Century

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

autors: Gaia Vince 2022 269 lappuses

3.84

1000+ vērtējumi

Zinātne

Vide

Klimata pārmaiņas

Evenings and Weekends

autors: Oisín McKenna • 2024

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

3.75

60 000+

Mūsdienu proza

Literatūras proza

Kvīrs

Evenings and Weekends

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

autors: Oisín McKenna 2024 352 lappuses

3.75

60 000+ vērtējumi

Mūsdienu proza

Literatūras proza

Kvīrs

The Warmth of Other Suns

autors: Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

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

4.48

100 000+

Vēsture

Rase

Afroamerikāņu

The Warmth of Other Suns

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

autors: Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 lappuses

4.48

100 000+ vērtējumi

Vēsture

Rase

Afroamerikāņu

Triumph of the City

autors: Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

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

3.91

6000+

Ekonomika

Socioloģija

Urbānā

Triumph of the City

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

autors: Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 lappuses

3.91

6000+ vērtējumi

Ekonomika

Socioloģija

Urbānā

Tattoos on the Heart

autors: Gregory Boyle • 2009

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

4.49

30 000+

Memuāri

Reliģija

Garīgums

Tattoos on the Heart

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

autors: Gregory Boyle 2009 240 lappuses

4.49

30 000+ vērtējumi

Memuāri

Reliģija

Garīgums

Smart Cities

autors: Anthony M. Townsend • 2013

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

3.61

500+

Tehnoloģijas

Pilsētas

Politika

Smart Cities

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

autors: Anthony M. Townsend 2013 400 lappuses

3.61

500+ vērtējumi

Tehnoloģijas

Pilsētas

Politika

The Power Broker

autors: Robert A. Caro • 1974

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

4.53

29 000+

Vēsture

Biogrāfija

Politika

The Power Broker

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

autors: Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 lappuses

4.53

29 000+ vērtējumi

Vēsture

Biogrāfija

Politika

The Economy of Cities

autors: Jane Jacobs • 1969

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

4.09

1000+

Ekonomika

Urbānā

Socioloģija

The Economy of Cities

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

autors: Jane Jacobs 1969 288 lappuses

4.09

1000+ vērtējumi

Ekonomika

Urbānā

Socioloģija

Poverty Safari

autors: Darren McGarvey • 2017

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

4.01

6000+

Politika

Memuāri

Socioloģija

Poverty Safari

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

autors: Darren McGarvey 2017 257 lappuses

4.01

6000+ vērtējumi

Politika

Memuāri

Socioloģija

Scorpions

autors: Walter Dean Myers • 1995

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

3.8

2000+

Jauniešu literatūra

Afroamerikāņu

Kriminālžanrs

Scorpions

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

autors: Walter Dean Myers 1995 216 lappuses

3.8

2000+ vērtējumi

Jauniešu literatūra

Afroamerikāņu

Kriminālžanrs

Acceleration

autors: 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+

Jauniešu literatūra

Trilleris

Mistērija

Acceleration

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

autors: Graham McNamee 2003 210 lappuses

3.74

5000+ vērtējumi

Jauniešu literatūra

Trilleris

Mistērija

Money Hungry

autors: Sharon G. Flake • 2001

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

4.10

4000+

Jauniešu literatūra

Pusaudžu literatūra

Mūsdienu proza

Money Hungry

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

autors: Sharon G. Flake 2001 188 lappuses

4.10

4000+ vērtējumi

Jauniešu literatūra

Pusaudžu literatūra

Mūsdienu proza

Against the smart city

autors: Adam Greenfield • 2013

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

3.96

132

Urbānā

City

Tehnoloģijas

Against the smart city

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

autors: Adam Greenfield 2013 152 lappuses

3.96

132 vērtējumi

Urbānā

City

Tehnoloģijas

The Beautiful Struggle

autors: 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+

Memuāri

Autobiogrāfija

Rase

The Beautiful Struggle

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

autors: Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 lappuses

4.08

11 000+ vērtējumi

Memuāri

Autobiogrāfija

Rase

Tactical Urbanism

autors: Mike Lydon • 2014

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

3.99

315

Pilsētas

Urbānā

Dizains

Tactical Urbanism

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

autors: Mike Lydon 2014 256 lappuses

3.99

315 vērtējumi

Pilsētas

Urbānā

Dizains

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

autors: Carmelo Anthony • 2021

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

4.07

1000+

Memuāri

Sports

Biogrāfija

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

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

autors: Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 lappuses

4.07

1000+ vērtējumi

Memuāri

Sports

Biogrāfija

City of Gold

autors: Jim Krane • 2009

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

3.97

500+

Vēsture

Politika

Ekonomika

City of Gold

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

autors: Jim Krane 2009 368 lappuses

3.97

500+ vērtējumi

Vēsture

Politika

Ekonomika

Marry Me, Stranger

autors: Novoneel Chakraborty • 2014

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

3.97

4000+

Trilleris

Mistērija

Spriedze

Marry Me, Stranger

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

autors: Novoneel Chakraborty 2014 268 lappuses

3.97

4000+ vērtējumi

Trilleris

Mistērija

Spriedze

Flesh and Stone

autors: Richard Sennett • 1996

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

4.28

500+

Vēsture

Arhitektūra

Urbānā

Flesh and Stone

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

autors: Richard Sennett 1996 432 lappuses

4.28

500+ vērtējumi

Vēsture

Arhitektūra

Urbānā

Startup Communities

autors: Brad Feld • 2012

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

4.01

2000+

Bizness

Uzņēmējdarbība

Līderība

Startup Communities

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

autors: Brad Feld 2012 188 lappuses

4.01

2000+ vērtējumi

Bizness

Uzņēmējdarbība

Līderība

A Moment of Silence

autors: Sister Souljah • 2015

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

4.32

1000+

Romantika

Urbānā

Afroamerikāņu

A Moment of Silence

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

autors: Sister Souljah 2015 544 lappuses

4.32

1000+ vērtējumi

Romantika

Urbānā

Afroamerikāņu

Call of the Mall

autors: Paco Underhill • 2004

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

3.63

1000+

Bizness

Socioloģija

Psiholoģija

Call of the Mall

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

autors: Paco Underhill 2004 240 lappuses

3.63

1000+ vērtējumi

Bizness

Socioloģija

Psiholoģija

The Sins of the Fathers

autors: Lawrence Block • 1976

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

3.87

12 000+

Mistērija

Kriminālžanrs

Noir

The Sins of the Fathers

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

autors: Lawrence Block 1976 182 lappuses

3.87

12 000+ vērtējumi

Mistērija

Kriminālžanrs

Noir

The Basketball Diaries

autors: Jim Carroll • 1978

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

3.99

31 000+

Memuāri

Autobiogrāfija

Narkotikas

The Basketball Diaries

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

autors: Jim Carroll 1978 224 lappuses

3.99

31 000+ vērtējumi

Memuāri

Autobiogrāfija

Narkotikas

The Big Truck that Went By

autors: Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

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

4.12

1000+

Vēsture

Politika

Socioloģija

The Big Truck that Went By

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

autors: Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 lappuses

4.12

1000+ vērtējumi

Vēsture

Politika

Socioloģija

Capital City

autors: Samuel Stein • 2019

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

3.92

1000+

Politika

Ekonomika

Pilsētas

Capital City

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

autors: Samuel Stein 2019 202 lappuses

3.92

1000+ vērtējumi

Politika

Ekonomika

Pilsētas

The Hour of the Star

autors: Clarice Lispector • 1977

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

4.11

58 000+

Klasika

Literatūras proza

Literatūra

The Hour of the Star

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

autors: Clarice Lispector 1977 96 lappuses

4.11

58 000+ vērtējumi

Klasika

Literatūras proza

Literatūra

A Renegade History of the United States

autors: Thaddeus Russell • 2010

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

3.81

1000+

Vēsture

Politika

Socioloģija

A Renegade History of the United States

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

autors: Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 lappuses

3.81

1000+ vērtējumi

Vēsture

Politika

Socioloģija

Radicalized

autors: Cory Doctorow • 2019

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

4.03

8000+

Zinātniskā fantastika

Distopija

Īsstāsti

Radicalized

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

autors: Cory Doctorow 2019 304 lappuses

4.03

8000+ vērtējumi

Zinātniskā fantastika

Distopija

Īsstāsti

Radical Cities

autors: Justin McGuirk • 2014

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

4.27

434

Arhitektūra

Pilsētas

Latin America

Radical Cities

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

autors: Justin McGuirk 2014 304 lappuses

4.27

434 vērtējumi

Arhitektūra

Pilsētas

Latin America

God Hates Us All

autors: Hank Moody • 2009

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

3.46

4000+

Literatūras proza

Mūsdienu proza

Amerikāņu

God Hates Us All

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

autors: Hank Moody 2009 200 lappuses

3.46

4000+ vērtējumi

Literatūras proza

Mūsdienu proza

Amerikāņu

Reliquary

autors: Douglas Preston • 1997

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

4.04

50 000+

Trilleris

Šausmas

Mistērija

Reliquary

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

autors: Douglas Preston 1997 464 lappuses

4.04

50 000+ vērtējumi

Trilleris

Šausmas

Mistērija

Glory in Death

autors: J.D. Robb • 1995

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

4.27

73 000+

Romantiskais spriedzes romāns

Mistērija

Romantika

Glory in Death

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

autors: J.D. Robb 1995 296 lappuses

4.27

73 000+ vērtējumi

Romantiskais spriedzes romāns

Mistērija

Romantika

Speedboat

autors: Renata Adler • 1976

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

3.75

7000+

Literatūras proza

Klasika

Amerikāņu

Speedboat

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

autors: Renata Adler 1976 192 lappuses

3.75

7000+ vērtējumi

Literatūras proza

Klasika

Amerikāņu

The Warriors

autors: Sol Yurick • 1965

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

3.37

2000+

Kriminālžanrs

Klasika

Literatūras proza

The Warriors

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

autors: Sol Yurick 1965 212 lappuses

3.37

2000+ vērtējumi

Kriminālžanrs

Klasika

Literatūras proza

The Pleasures of the Damned

autors: Charles Bukowski • 2007

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

4.35

7000+

Dzeja

Klasika

Literatūra

The Pleasures of the Damned

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

autors: Charles Bukowski 2007 557 lappuses

4.35

7000+ vērtējumi

Dzeja

Klasika

Literatūra

Streetfight

autors: Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

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

4.26

2000+

Urbānā

Dizains

Politika

Streetfight

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

autors: Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 lappuses

4.26

2000+ vērtējumi

Urbānā

Dizains

Politika

Ethic 3

autors: Ashley Antoinette • 2018

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

4.54

5000+

Romantika

Urbānā

Afroamerikāņu

Ethic 3

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

autors: Ashley Antoinette 2018 264 lappuses

4.54

5000+ vērtējumi

Romantika

Urbānā

Afroamerikāņu

Ideālā ķīmija

autors: 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

Jauniešu literatūra

Mūsdienu romantika

Ideālā ķīmija

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

autors: Simone Elkeles 2008 368 lappuses

4.04

200 000+ vērtējumi

Romantika

Jauniešu literatūra

Mūsdienu romantika

Municipal Dreams

autors: John Boughton • 2018

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

3.92

500+

Vēsture

Politika

Arhitektūra

Municipal Dreams

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

autors: John Boughton 2018 336 lappuses

3.92

500+ vērtējumi

Vēsture

Politika

Arhitektūra

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