Urbano

As cidades pulsam com possibilidades infinitas enquanto arquitetos, urbanistas e visionários reimaginam nossas paisagens urbanas e enfrentam os desafios da vida metropolitana moderna. Estes livros exploram como o design inteligente, a tecnologia e o planejamento centrado nas pessoas podem transformar selvas de concreto em comunidades vibrantes e sustentáveis onde milhões de pessoas prosperam.

Urbano Resumos de Livros

O Garoto

por Sapphire

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

2.70

2.000+

Contemporâneo

Ficção Literária

Afro-Americano

Imersivo

O Garoto

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

por Sapphire 2003 374 páginas

2.70

2.000+ avaliações

Contemporâneo

Ficção Literária

Afro-Americano

Bowling Alone

por Robert D. Putnam • 2000

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

3.85

9.000+

Sociologia

Política

História

Bowling Alone

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

por Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 páginas

3.85

9.000+ avaliações

Sociologia

Política

História

Liquid Times

por Zygmunt Bauman • 2007

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

3.87

1.000+

Sociologia

Filosofia

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

1.000+ avaliações

Sociologia

Filosofia

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+

Sociologia

Justiça 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+ avaliações

Sociologia

Justiça 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

2.000+

Economia

Negócios

Sociologia

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

2.000+ avaliações

Economia

Negócios

Sociologia

O 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+

Mistério

Crime

Detetive

O 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+ avaliações

Mistério

Crime

Detetive

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

Cristão

Fé

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+ avaliações

Cristianismo

Cristão

Fé

The Flea Palace

por Elif Shafak • 2002

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

3.39

7.000+

Ficção Literária

Contemporâneo

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

7.000+ avaliações

Ficção Literária

Contemporâneo

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

9.000+

Contos

África

Contemporâneo

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

9.000+ avaliações

Contos

África

Contemporâneo

Wind Breaker 2

por Satoru Nii • 2021

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

4.38

1.000+

Mangá

Jovem Adulto

Ação

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

1.000+ avaliações

Mangá

Jovem Adulto

Ação

Nomad Century

por Gaia Vince • 2022

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

3.84

1.000+

Ciência

Meio Ambiente

Mudanças Climáticas

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

1.000+ avaliações

Ciência

Meio Ambiente

Mudanças Climáticas

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+

Contemporâneo

Ficção Literária

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+ avaliações

Contemporâneo

Ficção Literária

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+

História

Raça

Afro-Americano

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+ avaliações

História

Raça

Afro-Americano

Triumph of the City

por Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

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

3.91

6.000+

Economia

Sociologia

Urbano

Triumph of the City

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

por Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 páginas

3.91

6.000+ avaliações

Economia

Sociologia

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+

Memórias

Religião

Espiritualidade

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+ avaliações

Memórias

Religião

Espiritualidade

Smart Cities

por Anthony M. Townsend • 2013

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

3.61

500+

Tecnologia

Cidades

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+ avaliações

Tecnologia

Cidades

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+

História

Biografia

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+ avaliações

História

Biografia

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

1.000+

Economia

Urbano

Sociologia

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

1.000+ avaliações

Economia

Urbano

Sociologia

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

6.000+

Política

Memórias

Sociologia

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

6.000+ avaliações

Política

Memórias

Sociologia

Scorpions

por Walter Dean Myers • 1995

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

3.8

2.000+

Jovem Adulto

Afro-Americano

Crime

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

2.000+ avaliações

Jovem Adulto

Afro-Americano

Crime

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

5.000+

Jovem Adulto

Thriller

Mistério

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

5.000+ avaliações

Jovem Adulto

Thriller

Mistério

Money Hungry

por Sharon G. Flake • 2001

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

4.10

4.000+

Jovem Adulto

Infantojuvenil

Contemporâneo

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

4.000+ avaliações

Jovem Adulto

Infantojuvenil

Contemporâneo

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

Tecnologia

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 avaliações

Urbano

City

Tecnologia

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+

Memórias

Autobiografia

Raça

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+ avaliações

Memórias

Autobiografia

Raça

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

Cidades

Urbano

Design

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 avaliações

Cidades

Urbano

Design

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

1.000+

Memórias

Esportes

Biografia

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

1.000+ avaliações

Memórias

Esportes

Biografia

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+

História

Política

Economia

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+ avaliações

História

Política

Economia

Marry Me, Stranger

por Novoneel Chakraborty • 2014

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

3.97

4.000+

Thriller

Mistério

Suspense

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

4.000+ avaliações

Thriller

Mistério

Suspense

Flesh and Stone

por Richard Sennett • 1996

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

4.28

500+

História

Arquitetura

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+ avaliações

História

Arquitetura

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

2.000+

Negócios

Empreendedorismo

Liderança

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

2.000+ avaliações

Negócios

Empreendedorismo

Liderança

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

1.000+

Romance

Urbano

Afro-Americano

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

1.000+ avaliações

Romance

Urbano

Afro-Americano

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

1.000+

Negócios

Sociologia

Psicologia

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

1.000+ avaliações

Negócios

Sociologia

Psicologia

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+

Mistério

Crime

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+ avaliações

Mistério

Crime

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+

Memórias

Autobiografia

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+ avaliações

Memórias

Autobiografia

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

1.000+

História

Política

Sociologia

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

1.000+ avaliações

História

Política

Sociologia

Capital City

por Samuel Stein • 2019

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

3.92

1.000+

Política

Economia

Cidades

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

1.000+ avaliações

Política

Economia

Cidades

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+

Clássicos

Ficção Literária

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+ avaliações

Clássicos

Ficção Literária

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

1.000+

História

Política

Sociologia

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

1.000+ avaliações

História

Política

Sociologia

Radicalized

por Cory Doctorow • 2019

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

4.03

8.000+

Ficção Científica

Distopia

Contos

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

8.000+ avaliações

Ficção Científica

Distopia

Contos

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

Arquitetura

Cidades

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 avaliações

Arquitetura

Cidades

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

4.000+

Ficção Literária

Contemporâneo

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

4.000+ avaliações

Ficção Literária

Contemporâneo

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

Mistério

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+ avaliações

Thriller

Terror

Mistério

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 Romântico

Mistério

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+ avaliações

Suspense Romântico

Mistério

Romance

Speedboat

por Renata Adler • 1976

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

3.75

7.000+

Ficção Literária

Clássicos

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

7.000+ avaliações

Ficção Literária

Clássicos

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

2.000+

Crime

Clássicos

Ficção Literária

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

2.000+ avaliações

Crime

Clássicos

Ficção Literária

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

7.000+

Poesia

Clássicos

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

7.000+ avaliações

Poesia

Clássicos

Literatura

Streetfight

por Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

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

4.26

2.000+

Urbano

Design

Política

Streetfight

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

por Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 páginas

4.26

2.000+ avaliações

Urbano

Design

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

5.000+

Romance

Urbano

Afro-Americano

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

5.000+ avaliações

Romance

Urbano

Afro-Americano

Química Perfeita

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

Jovem Adulto

Romance Contemporâneo

Química Perfeita

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+ avaliações

Romance

Jovem Adulto

Romance Contemporâneo

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+

História

Política

Arquitetura

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+ avaliações

História

Política

Arquitetura

1 2 Próximo

Compare Features	Free	Pro
📖 Read Summaries Read unlimited summaries. Free users get 3 per month
🎧 Listen to Summaries Listen to unlimited summaries in 40 languages	—
❤️ Unlimited Bookmarks Free users are limited to 4	—
📜 Unlimited History Free users are limited to 4	—
📥 Unlimited Downloads Free users are limited to 1	—

People love SoBrief

Join our global community of 600,000+ readers

★★★★★

This site is a total game-changer. I've been flying through book summaries like never before. Highly, highly recommend.

— Dave G

Worth my money and time, and really well made. I've never seen this quality of summaries on other websites. Very helpful!

— Em

Highly recommended!! Fantastic service. Perfect for those that want a little more than a teaser but not all the intricate details of a full audio book.

— Greg M