Kentsel

Şehirler sonsuz olanaklarla nabız atarken mimarlar, şehir plancıları ve vizyonerler kentsel peyzajlarımızı yeniden hayal ediyor ve modern metropol yaşamının zorluklarıyla mücadele ediyor. Bu kitaplar, akıllı tasarım, teknoloji ve insan odaklı planlamanın beton ormanları milyonlarca insanın geliştiği canlı, sürdürülebilir topluluklara nasıl dönüştürebileceğini keşfediyor.

Kentsel Kitap Özetleri

Çocuk

yazan Sapphire

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

2.70

2.000+

Çağdaş

Edebî Kurgu

Afrikalı Amerikalı

Sürükleyici

Çocuk

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

yazan Sapphire 2003 374 sayfa

2.70

2.000+ puan

Çağdaş

Edebî Kurgu

Afrikalı Amerikalı

Bowling Alone

yazan Robert D. Putnam • 2000

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

3.85

9.000+

Sosyoloji

Siyaset

Tarih

Bowling Alone

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

yazan Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 sayfa

3.85

9.000+ puan

Sosyoloji

Siyaset

Tarih

Akışkan Zamanlar

yazan Zygmunt Bauman • 2007

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

3.87

1.000+

Sosyoloji

Felsefe

Siyaset

Akışkan Zamanlar

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

yazan Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 sayfa

3.87

1.000+ puan

Sosyoloji

Felsefe

Siyaset

Evicted

yazan Matthew Desmond • 2016

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

4.47

100.000+

Sosyoloji

Sosyal Adalet

Yoksulluk

Evicted

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

yazan Matthew Desmond 2016 418 sayfa

4.47

100.000+ puan

Sosyoloji

Sosyal Adalet

Yoksulluk

The New Geography Of Jobs

yazan Enrico Moretti • 2012

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

4.03

2.000+

Ekonomi

İş Dünyası

Sosyoloji

The New Geography Of Jobs

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

yazan Enrico Moretti 2012 304 sayfa

4.03

2.000+ puan

Ekonomi

İş Dünyası

Sosyoloji

Kara Yankı

yazan Michael Connelly • 1992

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

4.14

200.000+

Gizem

Suç

Dedektif

Kara Yankı

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

yazan Michael Connelly 1992 482 sayfa

4.14

200.000+ puan

Gizem

Suç

Dedektif

The Cross and the Switchblade

yazan 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+

Hristiyanlık

Hristiyan

İman

The Cross and the Switchblade

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

yazan David Wilkerson 1963 176 sayfa

4.27

60.000+ puan

Hristiyanlık

Hristiyan

İman

The Flea Palace

yazan Elif Shafak • 2002

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

3.39

7.000+

Edebî Kurgu

Çağdaş

World Literature

The Flea Palace

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

yazan Elif Shafak 2002 448 sayfa

3.39

7.000+ puan

Edebî Kurgu

Çağdaş

World Literature

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

yazan Damilare Kuku • 2024

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

4.00

9.000+

Kısa Hikâyeler

Afrika

Çağdaş

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

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

yazan Damilare Kuku 2024

4.00

9.000+ puan

Kısa Hikâyeler

Afrika

Çağdaş

Wind Breaker 2

yazan Satoru Nii • 2021

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

4.38

1.000+

Manga

Genç Yetişkin

Aksiyon

Wind Breaker 2

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

yazan Satoru Nii 2021 192 sayfa

4.38

1.000+ puan

Manga

Genç Yetişkin

Aksiyon

Nomad Century

yazan Gaia Vince • 2022

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

3.84

1.000+

Bilim

Çevre

İklim Değişikliği

Nomad Century

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

yazan Gaia Vince 2022 269 sayfa

3.84

1.000+ puan

Bilim

Çevre

İklim Değişikliği

Evenings and Weekends

yazan Oisín McKenna • 2024

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

3.75

60.000+

Çağdaş

Edebî Kurgu

Queer

Evenings and Weekends

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

yazan Oisín McKenna 2024 352 sayfa

3.75

60.000+ puan

Çağdaş

Edebî Kurgu

Queer

The Warmth of Other Suns

yazan Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

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

4.48

100.000+

Tarih

Irk

Afrikalı Amerikalı

The Warmth of Other Suns

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

yazan Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 sayfa

4.48

100.000+ puan

Tarih

Irk

Afrikalı Amerikalı

Triumph of the City

yazan Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

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

3.91

6.000+

Ekonomi

Sosyoloji

Kentsel

Triumph of the City

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

yazan Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 sayfa

3.91

6.000+ puan

Ekonomi

Sosyoloji

Kentsel

Tattoos on the Heart

yazan Gregory Boyle • 2009

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

4.49

30.000+

Anı

Din

Maneviyat

Tattoos on the Heart

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

yazan Gregory Boyle 2009 240 sayfa

4.49

30.000+ puan

Anı

Din

Maneviyat

Smart Cities

yazan Anthony M. Townsend • 2013

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

3.61

500+

Teknoloji

Şehirler

Siyaset

Smart Cities

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

yazan Anthony M. Townsend 2013 400 sayfa

3.61

500+ puan

Teknoloji

Şehirler

Siyaset

The Power Broker

yazan Robert A. Caro • 1974

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

4.53

29.000+

Tarih

Biyografi

Siyaset

The Power Broker

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

yazan Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 sayfa

4.53

29.000+ puan

Tarih

Biyografi

Siyaset

The Economy of Cities

yazan Jane Jacobs • 1969

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

4.09

1.000+

Ekonomi

Kentsel

Sosyoloji

The Economy of Cities

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

yazan Jane Jacobs 1969 288 sayfa

4.09

1.000+ puan

Ekonomi

Kentsel

Sosyoloji

Poverty Safari

yazan Darren McGarvey • 2017

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

4.01

6.000+

Siyaset

Anı

Sosyoloji

Poverty Safari

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

yazan Darren McGarvey 2017 257 sayfa

4.01

6.000+ puan

Siyaset

Anı

Sosyoloji

Scorpions

yazan Walter Dean Myers • 1995

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

3.8

2.000+

Genç Yetişkin

Afrikalı Amerikalı

Suç

Scorpions

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

yazan Walter Dean Myers 1995 216 sayfa

3.8

2.000+ puan

Genç Yetişkin

Afrikalı Amerikalı

Suç

Acceleration

yazan 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+

Genç Yetişkin

Gerilim

Gizem

Acceleration

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

yazan Graham McNamee 2003 210 sayfa

3.74

5.000+ puan

Genç Yetişkin

Gerilim

Gizem

Money Hungry

yazan Sharon G. Flake • 2001

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

4.10

4.000+

Genç Yetişkin

Orta Sınıf

Çağdaş

Money Hungry

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

yazan Sharon G. Flake 2001 188 sayfa

4.10

4.000+ puan

Genç Yetişkin

Orta Sınıf

Çağdaş

Against the smart city

yazan Adam Greenfield • 2013

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

3.96

132

Kentsel

City

Teknoloji

Against the smart city

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

yazan Adam Greenfield 2013 152 sayfa

3.96

132 puan

Kentsel

City

Teknoloji

The Beautiful Struggle

yazan 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+

Anı

Otobiyografi

Irk

The Beautiful Struggle

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

yazan Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 sayfa

4.08

11.000+ puan

Anı

Otobiyografi

Irk

Tactical Urbanism

yazan Mike Lydon • 2014

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

3.99

315

Şehirler

Kentsel

Tasarım

Tactical Urbanism

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

yazan Mike Lydon 2014 256 sayfa

3.99

315 puan

Şehirler

Kentsel

Tasarım

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

yazan Carmelo Anthony • 2021

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

4.07

1.000+

Anı

Spor

Biyografi

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

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

yazan Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 sayfa

4.07

1.000+ puan

Anı

Spor

Biyografi

City of Gold

yazan Jim Krane • 2009

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

3.97

500+

Tarih

Siyaset

Ekonomi

City of Gold

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

yazan Jim Krane 2009 368 sayfa

3.97

500+ puan

Tarih

Siyaset

Ekonomi

Marry Me, Stranger

yazan Novoneel Chakraborty • 2014

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

3.97

4.000+

Gerilim

Gizem

Gerilim

Marry Me, Stranger

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

yazan Novoneel Chakraborty 2014 268 sayfa

3.97

4.000+ puan

Gerilim

Gizem

Gerilim

Flesh and Stone

yazan Richard Sennett • 1996

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

4.28

500+

Tarih

Mimarlık

Kentsel

Flesh and Stone

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

yazan Richard Sennett 1996 432 sayfa

4.28

500+ puan

Tarih

Mimarlık

Kentsel

Startup Communities

yazan Brad Feld • 2012

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

4.01

2.000+

İş Dünyası

Girişimcilik

Liderlik

Startup Communities

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

yazan Brad Feld 2012 188 sayfa

4.01

2.000+ puan

İş Dünyası

Girişimcilik

Liderlik

A Moment of Silence

yazan Sister Souljah • 2015

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

4.32

1.000+

Romantik

Kentsel

Afrikalı Amerikalı

A Moment of Silence

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

yazan Sister Souljah 2015 544 sayfa

4.32

1.000+ puan

Romantik

Kentsel

Afrikalı Amerikalı

Call of the Mall

yazan Paco Underhill • 2004

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

3.63

1.000+

İş Dünyası

Sosyoloji

Psikoloji

Call of the Mall

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

yazan Paco Underhill 2004 240 sayfa

3.63

1.000+ puan

İş Dünyası

Sosyoloji

Psikoloji

The Sins of the Fathers

yazan Lawrence Block • 1976

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

3.87

12.000+

Gizem

Suç

Noir

The Sins of the Fathers

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

yazan Lawrence Block 1976 182 sayfa

3.87

12.000+ puan

Gizem

Suç

Noir

The Basketball Diaries

yazan Jim Carroll • 1978

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

3.99

31.000+

Anı

Otobiyografi

Uyuşturucu

The Basketball Diaries

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

yazan Jim Carroll 1978 224 sayfa

3.99

31.000+ puan

Anı

Otobiyografi

Uyuşturucu

The Big Truck that Went By

yazan Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

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

4.12

1.000+

Tarih

Siyaset

Sosyoloji

The Big Truck that Went By

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

yazan Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 sayfa

4.12

1.000+ puan

Tarih

Siyaset

Sosyoloji

Capital City

yazan Samuel Stein • 2019

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

3.92

1.000+

Siyaset

Ekonomi

Şehirler

Capital City

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

yazan Samuel Stein 2019 202 sayfa

3.92

1.000+ puan

Siyaset

Ekonomi

Şehirler

The Hour of the Star

yazan Clarice Lispector • 1977

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

4.11

58.000+

Klasikler

Edebî Kurgu

Edebiyat

The Hour of the Star

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

yazan Clarice Lispector 1977 96 sayfa

4.11

58.000+ puan

Klasikler

Edebî Kurgu

Edebiyat

A Renegade History of the United States

yazan Thaddeus Russell • 2010

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

3.81

1.000+

Tarih

Siyaset

Sosyoloji

A Renegade History of the United States

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

yazan Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 sayfa

3.81

1.000+ puan

Tarih

Siyaset

Sosyoloji

Radicalized

yazan Cory Doctorow • 2019

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

4.03

8.000+

Bilim Kurgu

Distopya

Kısa Hikâyeler

Radicalized

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

yazan Cory Doctorow 2019 304 sayfa

4.03

8.000+ puan

Bilim Kurgu

Distopya

Kısa Hikâyeler

Radical Cities

yazan Justin McGuirk • 2014

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

4.27

434

Mimarlık

Şehirler

Latin America

Radical Cities

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

yazan Justin McGuirk 2014 304 sayfa

4.27

434 puan

Mimarlık

Şehirler

Latin America

God Hates Us All

yazan Hank Moody • 2009

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

3.46

4.000+

Edebî Kurgu

Çağdaş

Amerikan

God Hates Us All

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

yazan Hank Moody 2009 200 sayfa

3.46

4.000+ puan

Edebî Kurgu

Çağdaş

Amerikan

Reliquary

yazan Douglas Preston • 1997

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

4.04

50.000+

Gerilim

Korku

Gizem

Reliquary

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

yazan Douglas Preston 1997 464 sayfa

4.04

50.000+ puan

Gerilim

Korku

Gizem

Glory in Death

yazan J.D. Robb • 1995

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

4.27

73.000+

Romantik Gerilim

Gizem

Romantik

Glory in Death

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

yazan J.D. Robb 1995 296 sayfa

4.27

73.000+ puan

Romantik Gerilim

Gizem

Romantik

Speedboat

yazan Renata Adler • 1976

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

3.75

7.000+

Edebî Kurgu

Klasikler

Amerikan

Speedboat

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

yazan Renata Adler 1976 192 sayfa

3.75

7.000+ puan

Edebî Kurgu

Klasikler

Amerikan

The Warriors

yazan Sol Yurick • 1965

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

3.37

2.000+

Suç

Klasikler

Edebî Kurgu

The Warriors

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

yazan Sol Yurick 1965 212 sayfa

3.37

2.000+ puan

Suç

Klasikler

Edebî Kurgu

The Pleasures of the Damned

yazan Charles Bukowski • 2007

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

4.35

7.000+

Şiir

Klasikler

Edebiyat

The Pleasures of the Damned

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

yazan Charles Bukowski 2007 557 sayfa

4.35

7.000+ puan

Şiir

Klasikler

Edebiyat

Streetfight

yazan Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

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

4.26

2.000+

Kentsel

Tasarım

Siyaset

Streetfight

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

yazan Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 sayfa

4.26

2.000+ puan

Kentsel

Tasarım

Siyaset

Ethic 3

yazan Ashley Antoinette • 2018

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

4.54

5.000+

Romantik

Kentsel

Afrikalı Amerikalı

Ethic 3

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

yazan Ashley Antoinette 2018 264 sayfa

4.54

5.000+ puan

Romantik

Kentsel

Afrikalı Amerikalı

Mükemmel Kimya

yazan 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+

Romantik

Genç Yetişkin

Çağdaş Romans

Mükemmel Kimya

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

yazan Simone Elkeles 2008 368 sayfa

4.04

200.000+ puan

Romantik

Genç Yetişkin

Çağdaş Romans

Municipal Dreams

yazan John Boughton • 2018

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

3.92

500+

Tarih

Siyaset

Mimarlık

Municipal Dreams

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

yazan John Boughton 2018 336 sayfa

3.92

500+ puan

Tarih

Siyaset

Mimarlık

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