Miejskie

Miasta tętnią nieskończonymi możliwościami, podczas gdy architekci, urbaniści i wizjonerzy na nowo wyobrażają sobie nasze krajobrazy miejskie i mierzą się z wyzwaniami współczesnego życia metropolitalnego. Te książki badają, jak inteligentny design, technologia i planowanie skoncentrowane na człowieku mogą przekształcić betonowe dżungle w tętniące życiem, zrównoważone społeczności, w których miliony ludzi mogą się rozwijać.

Miejskie Streszczenia książek

Dzieciak

autor: Sapphire

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

2.70

2000+

Literatura współczesna

Literatura piękna

Afroamerykańskie

Immersyjne

Dzieciak

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

autor: Sapphire 2003 374 stron

2.70

2000+ ocen

Literatura współczesna

Literatura piękna

Afroamerykańskie

Bowling Alone

autor: Robert D. Putnam • 2000

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

3.85

9000+

Socjologia

Polityka

Historia

Bowling Alone

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

autor: Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 stron

3.85

9000+ ocen

Socjologia

Polityka

Historia

Liquid Times

autor: Zygmunt Bauman • 2007

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

3.87

1000+

Socjologia

Filozofia

Polityka

Liquid Times

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

autor: Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 stron

3.87

1000+ ocen

Socjologia

Filozofia

Polityka

Evicted

autor: Matthew Desmond • 2016

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

4.47

100 000+

Socjologia

Sprawiedliwość społeczna

Ubóstwo

Evicted

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

autor: Matthew Desmond 2016 418 stron

4.47

100 000+ ocen

Socjologia

Sprawiedliwość społeczna

Ubóstwo

The New Geography Of Jobs

autor: Enrico Moretti • 2012

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

4.03

2000+

Ekonomia

Biznes

Socjologia

The New Geography Of Jobs

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

autor: Enrico Moretti 2012 304 stron

4.03

2000+ ocen

Ekonomia

Biznes

Socjologia

Czarne echo

autor: Michael Connelly • 1992

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

4.14

200 000+

Kryminał

Detektywistyczne

Czarne echo

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

autor: Michael Connelly 1992 482 stron

4.14

200 000+ ocen

Kryminał

Detektywistyczne

The Cross and the Switchblade

autor: 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+

Chrześcijaństwo

Chrześcijańskie

Wiara

The Cross and the Switchblade

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

autor: David Wilkerson 1963 176 stron

4.27

60 000+ ocen

Chrześcijaństwo

Chrześcijańskie

Wiara

The Flea Palace

autor: Elif Shafak • 2002

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

3.39

7000+

Literatura piękna

Literatura współczesna

World Literature

The Flea Palace

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

autor: Elif Shafak 2002 448 stron

3.39

7000+ ocen

Literatura piękna

Literatura współczesna

World Literature

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

autor: Damilare Kuku • 2024

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

4.00

9000+

Opowiadania

Afryka

Literatura współczesna

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

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

autor: Damilare Kuku 2024

4.00

9000+ ocen

Opowiadania

Afryka

Literatura współczesna

Wind Breaker 2

autor: Satoru Nii • 2021

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

4.38

1000+

Manga

Young Adult

Akcja

Wind Breaker 2

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

autor: Satoru Nii 2021 192 stron

4.38

1000+ ocen

Manga

Young Adult

Akcja

Koczownicze stulecie

autor: Gaia Vince • 2022

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

3.84

1000+

Nauka

Środowisko

Zmiany klimatu

Koczownicze stulecie

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

autor: Gaia Vince 2022 269 stron

3.84

1000+ ocen

Nauka

Środowisko

Zmiany klimatu

Evenings and Weekends

autor: Oisín McKenna • 2024

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

3.75

60 000+

Literatura współczesna

Literatura piękna

Queer

Evenings and Weekends

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

autor: Oisín McKenna 2024 352 stron

3.75

60 000+ ocen

Literatura współczesna

Literatura piękna

Queer

The Warmth of Other Suns

autor: Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

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

4.48

100 000+

Historia

Rasa

Afroamerykańskie

The Warmth of Other Suns

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

autor: Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 stron

4.48

100 000+ ocen

Historia

Rasa

Afroamerykańskie

Triumph of the City

autor: Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

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

3.91

6000+

Ekonomia

Socjologia

Miejskie

Triumph of the City

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

autor: Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 stron

3.91

6000+ ocen

Ekonomia

Socjologia

Miejskie

Tattoos on the Heart

autor: Gregory Boyle • 2009

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

4.49

30 000+

Pamiętnik

Religia

Duchowość

Tattoos on the Heart

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

autor: Gregory Boyle 2009 240 stron

4.49

30 000+ ocen

Pamiętnik

Religia

Duchowość

Smart Cities

autor: Anthony M. Townsend • 2013

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

3.61

500+

Technologia

Miasta

Polityka

Smart Cities

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

autor: Anthony M. Townsend 2013 400 stron

3.61

500+ ocen

Technologia

Miasta

Polityka

The Power Broker

autor: Robert A. Caro • 1974

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

4.53

29 000+

Historia

Biografia

Polityka

The Power Broker

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

autor: Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 stron

4.53

29 000+ ocen

Historia

Biografia

Polityka

The Economy of Cities

autor: Jane Jacobs • 1969

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

4.09

1000+

Ekonomia

Miejskie

Socjologia

The Economy of Cities

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

autor: Jane Jacobs 1969 288 stron

4.09

1000+ ocen

Ekonomia

Miejskie

Socjologia

Poverty Safari

autor: Darren McGarvey • 2017

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

4.01

6000+

Polityka

Pamiętnik

Socjologia

Poverty Safari

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

autor: Darren McGarvey 2017 257 stron

4.01

6000+ ocen

Polityka

Pamiętnik

Socjologia

Scorpions

autor: Walter Dean Myers • 1995

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

3.8

2000+

Young Adult

Afroamerykańskie

Kryminał

Scorpions

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

autor: Walter Dean Myers 1995 216 stron

3.8

2000+ ocen

Young Adult

Afroamerykańskie

Kryminał

Acceleration

autor: 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+

Young Adult

Thriller

Kryminał

Acceleration

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

autor: Graham McNamee 2003 210 stron

3.74

5000+ ocen

Young Adult

Thriller

Kryminał

Money Hungry

autor: Sharon G. Flake • 2001

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

4.10

4000+

Young Adult

Middle Grade

Literatura współczesna

Money Hungry

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

autor: Sharon G. Flake 2001 188 stron

4.10

4000+ ocen

Young Adult

Middle Grade

Literatura współczesna

Against the smart city

autor: Adam Greenfield • 2013

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

3.96

132

Miejskie

City

Technologia

Against the smart city

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

autor: Adam Greenfield 2013 152 stron

3.96

132 ocen

Miejskie

City

Technologia

The Beautiful Struggle

autor: 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+

Pamiętnik

Autobiografia

Rasa

The Beautiful Struggle

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

autor: Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 stron

4.08

11 000+ ocen

Pamiętnik

Autobiografia

Rasa

Tactical Urbanism

autor: Mike Lydon • 2014

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

3.99

315

Miasta

Miejskie

Design

Tactical Urbanism

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

autor: Mike Lydon 2014 256 stron

3.99

315 ocen

Miasta

Miejskie

Design

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

autor: Carmelo Anthony • 2021

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

4.07

1000+

Pamiętnik

Sport

Biografia

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

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

autor: Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 stron

4.07

1000+ ocen

Pamiętnik

Sport

Biografia

City of Gold

autor: Jim Krane • 2009

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

3.97

500+

Historia

Polityka

Ekonomia

City of Gold

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

autor: Jim Krane 2009 368 stron

3.97

500+ ocen

Historia

Polityka

Ekonomia

Marry Me, Stranger

autor: Novoneel Chakraborty • 2014

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

3.97

4000+

Thriller

Kryminał

Suspens

Marry Me, Stranger

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

autor: Novoneel Chakraborty 2014 268 stron

3.97

4000+ ocen

Thriller

Kryminał

Suspens

Flesh and Stone

autor: Richard Sennett • 1996

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

4.28

500+

Historia

Architektura

Miejskie

Flesh and Stone

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

autor: Richard Sennett 1996 432 stron

4.28

500+ ocen

Historia

Architektura

Miejskie

Startup Communities

autor: Brad Feld • 2012

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

4.01

2000+

Biznes

Przedsiębiorczość

Przywództwo

Startup Communities

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

autor: Brad Feld 2012 188 stron

4.01

2000+ ocen

Biznes

Przedsiębiorczość

Przywództwo

A Moment of Silence

autor: Sister Souljah • 2015

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

4.32

1000+

Romans

Miejskie

Afroamerykańskie

A Moment of Silence

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

autor: Sister Souljah 2015 544 stron

4.32

1000+ ocen

Romans

Miejskie

Afroamerykańskie

Call of the Mall

autor: Paco Underhill • 2004

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

3.63

1000+

Biznes

Socjologia

Psychologia

Call of the Mall

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

autor: Paco Underhill 2004 240 stron

3.63

1000+ ocen

Biznes

Socjologia

Psychologia

The Sins of the Fathers

autor: Lawrence Block • 1976

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

3.87

12 000+

Kryminał

Noir

The Sins of the Fathers

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

autor: Lawrence Block 1976 182 stron

3.87

12 000+ ocen

Kryminał

Noir

The Basketball Diaries

autor: Jim Carroll • 1978

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

3.99

31 000+

Pamiętnik

Autobiografia

Narkotyki

The Basketball Diaries

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

autor: Jim Carroll 1978 224 stron

3.99

31 000+ ocen

Pamiętnik

Autobiografia

Narkotyki

The Big Truck that Went By

autor: Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

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

4.12

1000+

Historia

Polityka

Socjologia

The Big Truck that Went By

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

autor: Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 stron

4.12

1000+ ocen

Historia

Polityka

Socjologia

Capital City

autor: Samuel Stein • 2019

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

3.92

1000+

Polityka

Ekonomia

Miasta

Capital City

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

autor: Samuel Stein 2019 202 stron

3.92

1000+ ocen

Polityka

Ekonomia

Miasta

The Hour of the Star

autor: Clarice Lispector • 1977

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

4.11

58 000+

Klasyka

Literatura piękna

Literatura

The Hour of the Star

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

autor: Clarice Lispector 1977 96 stron

4.11

58 000+ ocen

Klasyka

Literatura piękna

Literatura

A Renegade History of the United States

autor: Thaddeus Russell • 2010

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

3.81

1000+

Historia

Polityka

Socjologia

A Renegade History of the United States

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

autor: Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 stron

3.81

1000+ ocen

Historia

Polityka

Socjologia

Radicalized

autor: Cory Doctorow • 2019

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

4.03

8000+

Science Fiction

Dystopia

Opowiadania

Radicalized

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

autor: Cory Doctorow 2019 304 stron

4.03

8000+ ocen

Science Fiction

Dystopia

Opowiadania

Radical Cities

autor: Justin McGuirk • 2014

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

4.27

434

Architektura

Miasta

Latin America

Radical Cities

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

autor: Justin McGuirk 2014 304 stron

4.27

434 ocen

Architektura

Miasta

Latin America

God Hates Us All

autor: Hank Moody • 2009

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

3.46

4000+

Literatura piękna

Literatura współczesna

Amerykańskie

God Hates Us All

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

autor: Hank Moody 2009 200 stron

3.46

4000+ ocen

Literatura piękna

Literatura współczesna

Amerykańskie

Reliquary

autor: 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

Kryminał

Reliquary

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

autor: Douglas Preston 1997 464 stron

4.04

50 000+ ocen

Thriller

Horror

Kryminał

Glory in Death

autor: J.D. Robb • 1995

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

4.27

73 000+

Romans z suspensem

Kryminał

Romans

Glory in Death

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

autor: J.D. Robb 1995 296 stron

4.27

73 000+ ocen

Romans z suspensem

Kryminał

Romans

Speedboat

autor: Renata Adler • 1976

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

3.75

7000+

Literatura piękna

Klasyka

Amerykańskie

Speedboat

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

autor: Renata Adler 1976 192 stron

3.75

7000+ ocen

Literatura piękna

Klasyka

Amerykańskie

The Warriors

autor: Sol Yurick • 1965

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

3.37

2000+

Kryminał

Klasyka

Literatura piękna

The Warriors

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

autor: Sol Yurick 1965 212 stron

3.37

2000+ ocen

Kryminał

Klasyka

Literatura piękna

The Pleasures of the Damned

autor: Charles Bukowski • 2007

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

4.35

7000+

Poezja

Klasyka

Literatura

The Pleasures of the Damned

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

autor: Charles Bukowski 2007 557 stron

4.35

7000+ ocen

Poezja

Klasyka

Literatura

Streetfight

autor: Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

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

4.26

2000+

Miejskie

Design

Polityka

Streetfight

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

autor: Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 stron

4.26

2000+ ocen

Miejskie

Design

Polityka

Ethic 3

autor: Ashley Antoinette • 2018

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

4.54

5000+

Romans

Miejskie

Afroamerykańskie

Ethic 3

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

autor: Ashley Antoinette 2018 264 stron

4.54

5000+ ocen

Romans

Miejskie

Afroamerykańskie

Chemia idealna

autor: 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+

Romans

Young Adult

Romans współczesny

Chemia idealna

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

autor: Simone Elkeles 2008 368 stron

4.04

200 000+ ocen

Romans

Young Adult

Romans współczesny

Municipal Dreams

autor: John Boughton • 2018

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

3.92

500+

Historia

Polityka

Architektura

Municipal Dreams

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

autor: John Boughton 2018 336 stron

3.92

500+ ocen

Historia

Polityka

Architektura

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