Stedelijk

Steden bruisen van eindeloze mogelijkheden terwijl architecten, stedenbouwkundigen en visionairen onze stedelijke landschappen heruitvinden en de uitdagingen van het moderne grootstedelijke leven aanpakken. Deze boeken onderzoeken hoe slim ontwerp, technologie en mensgerichte planning betonnen jungles kunnen transformeren tot levendige, duurzame gemeenschappen waar miljoenen mensen floreren.

Stedelijk Boeksamenvattingen

Het kind

door Sapphire

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

2.70

2.000+

Hedendaags

Literaire fictie

Afro-Amerikaans

Immersief

Het kind

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

door Sapphire 2003 374 pagina's

2.70

2.000+ beoordelingen

Hedendaags

Literaire fictie

Afro-Amerikaans

Bowling Alone

door Robert D. Putnam • 2000

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

3.85

9.000+

Sociologie

Politiek

Geschiedenis

Bowling Alone

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

door Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 pagina's

3.85

9.000+ beoordelingen

Sociologie

Politiek

Geschiedenis

Liquid Times

door Zygmunt Bauman • 2007

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

3.87

1.000+

Sociologie

Filosofie

Politiek

Liquid Times

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

door Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 pagina's

3.87

1.000+ beoordelingen

Sociologie

Filosofie

Politiek

Evicted

door 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

Sociale Rechtvaardigheid

Armoede

Evicted

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

door Matthew Desmond 2016 418 pagina's

4.47

100.000+ beoordelingen

Sociologie

Sociale Rechtvaardigheid

Armoede

The New Geography Of Jobs

door Enrico Moretti • 2012

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

4.03

2.000+

Economie

Business

Sociologie

The New Geography Of Jobs

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

door Enrico Moretti 2012 304 pagina's

4.03

2.000+ beoordelingen

Economie

Business

Sociologie

De zwarte echo

door Michael Connelly • 1992

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

4.14

200.000+

Mystery

Misdaad

Detective

De zwarte echo

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

door Michael Connelly 1992 482 pagina's

4.14

200.000+ beoordelingen

Mystery

Misdaad

Detective

The Cross and the Switchblade

door 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+

Christendom

Christelijk

Geloof

The Cross and the Switchblade

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

door David Wilkerson 1963 176 pagina's

4.27

60.000+ beoordelingen

Christendom

Christelijk

Geloof

The Flea Palace

door Elif Shafak • 2002

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

3.39

7.000+

Literaire fictie

Hedendaags

World Literature

The Flea Palace

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

door Elif Shafak 2002 448 pagina's

3.39

7.000+ beoordelingen

Literaire fictie

Hedendaags

World Literature

Wind Breaker 2

door Satoru Nii • 2021

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

4.38

1.000+

Manga

Young Adult

Actie

Wind Breaker 2

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

door Satoru Nii 2021 192 pagina's

4.38

1.000+ beoordelingen

Manga

Young Adult

Actie

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

door Damilare Kuku • 2024

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

4.00

9.000+

Korte Verhalen

Afrika

Hedendaags

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

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

door Damilare Kuku 2024

4.00

9.000+ beoordelingen

Korte Verhalen

Afrika

Hedendaags

Nomad Century

door Gaia Vince • 2022

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

3.84

1.000+

Wetenschap

Milieu

Klimaatverandering

Nomad Century

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

door Gaia Vince 2022 269 pagina's

3.84

1.000+ beoordelingen

Wetenschap

Milieu

Klimaatverandering

Evenings and Weekends

door Oisín McKenna • 2024

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

3.75

60.000+

Hedendaags

Literaire fictie

Queer

Evenings and Weekends

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

door Oisín McKenna 2024 352 pagina's

3.75

60.000+ beoordelingen

Hedendaags

Literaire fictie

Queer

The Warmth of Other Suns

door Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

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

4.48

100.000+

Geschiedenis

Ras

Afro-Amerikaans

The Warmth of Other Suns

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

door Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 pagina's

4.48

100.000+ beoordelingen

Geschiedenis

Ras

Afro-Amerikaans

Triumph of the City

door Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

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

3.91

6.000+

Economie

Sociologie

Stedelijk

Triumph of the City

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

door Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 pagina's

3.91

6.000+ beoordelingen

Economie

Sociologie

Stedelijk

Tattoos on the Heart

door Gregory Boyle • 2009

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

4.49

30.000+

Memoires

Religie

Spiritualiteit

Tattoos on the Heart

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

door Gregory Boyle 2009 240 pagina's

4.49

30.000+ beoordelingen

Memoires

Religie

Spiritualiteit

Smart Cities

door Anthony M. Townsend • 2013

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

3.61

500+

Technologie

Steden

Politiek

Smart Cities

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

door Anthony M. Townsend 2013 400 pagina's

3.61

500+ beoordelingen

Technologie

Steden

Politiek

The Power Broker

door Robert A. Caro • 1974

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

4.53

29.000+

Geschiedenis

Biografie

Politiek

The Power Broker

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

door Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 pagina's

4.53

29.000+ beoordelingen

Geschiedenis

Biografie

Politiek

The Economy of Cities

door Jane Jacobs • 1969

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

4.09

1.000+

Economie

Stedelijk

Sociologie

The Economy of Cities

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

door Jane Jacobs 1969 288 pagina's

4.09

1.000+ beoordelingen

Economie

Stedelijk

Sociologie

Poverty Safari

door Darren McGarvey • 2017

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

4.01

6.000+

Politiek

Memoires

Sociologie

Poverty Safari

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

door Darren McGarvey 2017 257 pagina's

4.01

6.000+ beoordelingen

Politiek

Memoires

Sociologie

Scorpions

door Walter Dean Myers • 1995

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

3.8

2.000+

Young Adult

Afro-Amerikaans

Misdaad

Scorpions

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

door Walter Dean Myers 1995 216 pagina's

3.8

2.000+ beoordelingen

Young Adult

Afro-Amerikaans

Misdaad

Acceleration

door 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+

Young Adult

Thriller

Mystery

Acceleration

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

door Graham McNamee 2003 210 pagina's

3.74

5.000+ beoordelingen

Young Adult

Thriller

Mystery

Money Hungry

door Sharon G. Flake • 2001

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

4.10

4.000+

Young Adult

Middle grade

Hedendaags

Money Hungry

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

door Sharon G. Flake 2001 188 pagina's

4.10

4.000+ beoordelingen

Young Adult

Middle grade

Hedendaags

Against the smart city

door Adam Greenfield • 2013

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

3.96

132

Stedelijk

City

Technologie

Against the smart city

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

door Adam Greenfield 2013 152 pagina's

3.96

132 beoordelingen

Stedelijk

City

Technologie

The Beautiful Struggle

door 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+

Memoires

Autobiografie

Ras

The Beautiful Struggle

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

door Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 pagina's

4.08

11.000+ beoordelingen

Memoires

Autobiografie

Ras

Tactical Urbanism

door Mike Lydon • 2014

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

3.99

315

Steden

Stedelijk

Design

Tactical Urbanism

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

door Mike Lydon 2014 256 pagina's

3.99

315 beoordelingen

Steden

Stedelijk

Design

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

door Carmelo Anthony • 2021

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

4.07

1.000+

Memoires

Sport

Biografie

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

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

door Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 pagina's

4.07

1.000+ beoordelingen

Memoires

Sport

Biografie

City of Gold

door Jim Krane • 2009

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

3.97

500+

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Economie

City of Gold

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

door Jim Krane 2009 368 pagina's

3.97

500+ beoordelingen

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Economie

Marry Me, Stranger

door Novoneel Chakraborty • 2014

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

3.97

4.000+

Thriller

Mystery

Spanning

Marry Me, Stranger

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

door Novoneel Chakraborty 2014 268 pagina's

3.97

4.000+ beoordelingen

Thriller

Mystery

Spanning

Flesh and Stone

door Richard Sennett • 1996

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

4.28

500+

Geschiedenis

Architectuur

Stedelijk

Flesh and Stone

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

door Richard Sennett 1996 432 pagina's

4.28

500+ beoordelingen

Geschiedenis

Architectuur

Stedelijk

Startup Communities

door Brad Feld • 2012

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

4.01

2.000+

Business

Ondernemerschap

Leiderschap

Startup Communities

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

door Brad Feld 2012 188 pagina's

4.01

2.000+ beoordelingen

Business

Ondernemerschap

Leiderschap

A Moment of Silence

door Sister Souljah • 2015

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

4.32

1.000+

Romantiek

Stedelijk

Afro-Amerikaans

A Moment of Silence

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

door Sister Souljah 2015 544 pagina's

4.32

1.000+ beoordelingen

Romantiek

Stedelijk

Afro-Amerikaans

Call of the Mall

door Paco Underhill • 2004

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

3.63

1.000+

Business

Sociologie

Psychologie

Call of the Mall

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

door Paco Underhill 2004 240 pagina's

3.63

1.000+ beoordelingen

Business

Sociologie

Psychologie

The Sins of the Fathers

door Lawrence Block • 1976

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

3.87

12.000+

Mystery

Misdaad

Noir

The Sins of the Fathers

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

door Lawrence Block 1976 182 pagina's

3.87

12.000+ beoordelingen

Mystery

Misdaad

Noir

The Basketball Diaries

door Jim Carroll • 1978

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

3.99

31.000+

Memoires

Autobiografie

Drugs

The Basketball Diaries

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

door Jim Carroll 1978 224 pagina's

3.99

31.000+ beoordelingen

Memoires

Autobiografie

Drugs

The Big Truck that Went By

door Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

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

4.12

1.000+

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Sociologie

The Big Truck that Went By

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

door Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 pagina's

4.12

1.000+ beoordelingen

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Sociologie

The Hour of the Star

door Clarice Lispector • 1977

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

4.11

58.000+

Klassiekers

Literaire fictie

Literatuur

The Hour of the Star

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

door Clarice Lispector 1977 96 pagina's

4.11

58.000+ beoordelingen

Klassiekers

Literaire fictie

Literatuur

Capital City

door Samuel Stein • 2019

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

3.92

1.000+

Politiek

Economie

Steden

Capital City

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

door Samuel Stein 2019 202 pagina's

3.92

1.000+ beoordelingen

Politiek

Economie

Steden

A Renegade History of the United States

door Thaddeus Russell • 2010

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

3.81

1.000+

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Sociologie

A Renegade History of the United States

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

door Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 pagina's

3.81

1.000+ beoordelingen

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Sociologie

Radicalized

door Cory Doctorow • 2019

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

4.03

8.000+

Sciencefiction

Dystopie

Korte Verhalen

Radicalized

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

door Cory Doctorow 2019 304 pagina's

4.03

8.000+ beoordelingen

Sciencefiction

Dystopie

Korte Verhalen

Radical Cities

door Justin McGuirk • 2014

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

4.27

434

Architectuur

Steden

Latin America

Radical Cities

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

door Justin McGuirk 2014 304 pagina's

4.27

434 beoordelingen

Architectuur

Steden

Latin America

God Hates Us All

door Hank Moody • 2009

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

3.46

4.000+

Literaire fictie

Hedendaags

Amerikaans

God Hates Us All

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

door Hank Moody 2009 200 pagina's

3.46

4.000+ beoordelingen

Literaire fictie

Hedendaags

Amerikaans

Reliquary

door Douglas Preston • 1997

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

4.04

50.000+

Thriller

Horror

Mystery

Reliquary

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

door Douglas Preston 1997 464 pagina's

4.04

50.000+ beoordelingen

Thriller

Horror

Mystery

Glory in Death

door J.D. Robb • 1995

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

4.27

73.000+

Romantische Spanning

Mystery

Romantiek

Glory in Death

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

door J.D. Robb 1995 296 pagina's

4.27

73.000+ beoordelingen

Romantische Spanning

Mystery

Romantiek

Speedboat

door Renata Adler • 1976

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

3.75

7.000+

Literaire fictie

Klassiekers

Amerikaans

Speedboat

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

door Renata Adler 1976 192 pagina's

3.75

7.000+ beoordelingen

Literaire fictie

Klassiekers

Amerikaans

The Warriors

door Sol Yurick • 1965

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

3.37

2.000+

Misdaad

Klassiekers

Literaire fictie

The Warriors

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

door Sol Yurick 1965 212 pagina's

3.37

2.000+ beoordelingen

Misdaad

Klassiekers

Literaire fictie

The Pleasures of the Damned

door Charles Bukowski • 2007

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

4.35

7.000+

Poëzie

Klassiekers

Literatuur

The Pleasures of the Damned

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

door Charles Bukowski 2007 557 pagina's

4.35

7.000+ beoordelingen

Poëzie

Klassiekers

Literatuur

Streetfight

door Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

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

4.26

2.000+

Stedelijk

Design

Politiek

Streetfight

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

door Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 pagina's

4.26

2.000+ beoordelingen

Stedelijk

Design

Politiek

Ethic 3

door Ashley Antoinette • 2018

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

4.54

5.000+

Romantiek

Stedelijk

Afro-Amerikaans

Ethic 3

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

door Ashley Antoinette 2018 264 pagina's

4.54

5.000+ beoordelingen

Romantiek

Stedelijk

Afro-Amerikaans

Perfect Chemistry

door 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+

Romantiek

Young Adult

Hedendaagse Roman

Perfect Chemistry

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

door Simone Elkeles 2008 368 pagina's

4.04

200.000+ beoordelingen

Romantiek

Young Adult

Hedendaagse Roman

Municipal Dreams

door John Boughton • 2018

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

3.92

500+

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Architectuur

Municipal Dreams

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

door John Boughton 2018 336 pagina's

3.92

500+ beoordelingen

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Architectuur

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