شہری

شہر لامحدود امکانات سے دھڑکتے ہیں جبکہ معمار، منصوبہ ساز اور دوراندیش ہمارے شہری مناظر کو نئے سرے سے تصور کرتے ہیں اور جدید شہری زندگی کے چیلنجوں سے نمٹتے ہیں۔ یہ کتابیں دریافت کرتی ہیں کہ کس طرح سمارٹ ڈیزائن، ٹیکنالوجی اور انسان مرکوز منصوبہ بندی کنکریٹ کے جنگلوں کو متحرک، پائیدار برادریوں میں تبدیل کر سکتی ہے جہاں لاکھوں لوگ پھلتے پھولتے ہیں۔

شہری کتابوں کے خلاصے

The Kid

از Sapphire

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

2.70

2,000+

عصری ادب

ادبی افسانے

افریقی امریکی

عمیق

The Kid

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

از Sapphire 2003 374 صفحات

2.70

2,000+ درجہ بندیاں

عصری ادب

ادبی افسانے

افریقی امریکی

Bowling Alone

از Robert D. Putnam • 2000

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

3.85

9,000+

سماجیات

سیاست

تاریخ

Bowling Alone

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

از Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 صفحات

3.85

9,000+ درجہ بندیاں

سماجیات

سیاست

تاریخ

Liquid Times

از Zygmunt Bauman • 2007

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

3.87

1,000+

سماجیات

فلسفہ

سیاست

Liquid Times

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

از Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 صفحات

3.87

1,000+ درجہ بندیاں

سماجیات

فلسفہ

سیاست

Evicted

از Matthew Desmond • 2016

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

4.47

100,000+

سماجیات

سماجی انصاف

غربت

Evicted

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

از Matthew Desmond 2016 418 صفحات

4.47

100,000+ درجہ بندیاں

سماجیات

سماجی انصاف

غربت

The New Geography Of Jobs

از Enrico Moretti • 2012

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

4.03

2,000+

معاشیات

کاروبار

سماجیات

The New Geography Of Jobs

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

از Enrico Moretti 2012 304 صفحات

4.03

2,000+ درجہ بندیاں

معاشیات

کاروبار

سماجیات

دی بلیک ایکو

از مائیکل کونیلی • 1992

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

4.14

200,000+

اسرار

جرائم

جاسوسی

دی بلیک ایکو

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

از مائیکل کونیلی 1992 482 صفحات

4.14

200,000+ درجہ بندیاں

اسرار

جرائم

جاسوسی

The Cross and the Switchblade

از 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+

مسیحیت

مسیحی

ایمان

The Cross and the Switchblade

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

از David Wilkerson 1963 176 صفحات

4.27

60,000+ درجہ بندیاں

مسیحیت

مسیحی

ایمان

The Flea Palace

از Elif Shafak • 2002

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

3.39

7,000+

ادبی افسانے

عصری ادب

World Literature

The Flea Palace

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

از Elif Shafak 2002 448 صفحات

3.39

7,000+ درجہ بندیاں

ادبی افسانے

عصری ادب

World Literature

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

از Damilare Kuku • 2024

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

4.00

9,000+

مختصر کہانیاں

افریقہ

عصری ادب

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

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

از Damilare Kuku 2024

4.00

9,000+ درجہ بندیاں

مختصر کہانیاں

افریقہ

عصری ادب

Wind Breaker 2

از Satoru Nii • 2021

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

4.38

1,000+

مانگا

نوجوان بالغ

ایکشن

Wind Breaker 2

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

از Satoru Nii 2021 192 صفحات

4.38

1,000+ درجہ بندیاں

مانگا

نوجوان بالغ

ایکشن

Nomad Century

از Gaia Vince • 2022

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

3.84

1,000+

سائنس

ماحولیات

موسمیاتی تبدیلی

Nomad Century

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

از Gaia Vince 2022 269 صفحات

3.84

1,000+ درجہ بندیاں

سائنس

ماحولیات

موسمیاتی تبدیلی

Evenings and Weekends

از Oisín McKenna • 2024

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

3.75

60,000+

عصری ادب

ادبی افسانے

کوئیر

Evenings and Weekends

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

از Oisín McKenna 2024 352 صفحات

3.75

60,000+ درجہ بندیاں

عصری ادب

ادبی افسانے

کوئیر

The Warmth of Other Suns

از Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

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

4.48

100,000+

تاریخ

نسل

افریقی امریکی

The Warmth of Other Suns

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

از Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 صفحات

4.48

100,000+ درجہ بندیاں

تاریخ

نسل

افریقی امریکی

Triumph of the City

از Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

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

3.91

6,000+

معاشیات

سماجیات

شہری

Triumph of the City

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

از Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 صفحات

3.91

6,000+ درجہ بندیاں

معاشیات

سماجیات

شہری

Tattoos on the Heart

از Gregory Boyle • 2009

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

4.49

30,000+

یادداشت

مذہب

روحانیت

Tattoos on the Heart

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

از Gregory Boyle 2009 240 صفحات

4.49

30,000+ درجہ بندیاں

یادداشت

مذہب

روحانیت

Smart Cities

از Anthony M. Townsend • 2013

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

3.61

500+

ٹیکنالوجی

شہر

سیاست

Smart Cities

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

از Anthony M. Townsend 2013 400 صفحات

3.61

500+ درجہ بندیاں

ٹیکنالوجی

شہر

سیاست

The Power Broker

از Robert A. Caro • 1974

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

4.53

29,000+

تاریخ

سوانح عمری

سیاست

The Power Broker

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

از Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 صفحات

4.53

29,000+ درجہ بندیاں

تاریخ

سوانح عمری

سیاست

The Economy of Cities

از Jane Jacobs • 1969

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

4.09

1,000+

معاشیات

شہری

سماجیات

The Economy of Cities

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

از Jane Jacobs 1969 288 صفحات

4.09

1,000+ درجہ بندیاں

معاشیات

شہری

سماجیات

Poverty Safari

از Darren McGarvey • 2017

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

4.01

6,000+

سیاست

یادداشت

سماجیات

Poverty Safari

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

از Darren McGarvey 2017 257 صفحات

4.01

6,000+ درجہ بندیاں

سیاست

یادداشت

سماجیات

Scorpions

از Walter Dean Myers • 1995

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

3.8

2,000+

نوجوان بالغ

افریقی امریکی

جرائم

Scorpions

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

از Walter Dean Myers 1995 216 صفحات

3.8

2,000+ درجہ بندیاں

نوجوان بالغ

افریقی امریکی

جرائم

Acceleration

از 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+

نوجوان بالغ

تھرلر

اسرار

Acceleration

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

از Graham McNamee 2003 210 صفحات

3.74

5,000+ درجہ بندیاں

نوجوان بالغ

تھرلر

اسرار

Money Hungry

از Sharon G. Flake • 2001

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

4.10

4,000+

نوجوان بالغ

درمیانی عمر

عصری ادب

Money Hungry

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

از Sharon G. Flake 2001 188 صفحات

4.10

4,000+ درجہ بندیاں

نوجوان بالغ

درمیانی عمر

عصری ادب

Against the smart city

از Adam Greenfield • 2013

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

3.96

132

شہری

City

ٹیکنالوجی

Against the smart city

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

از Adam Greenfield 2013 152 صفحات

3.96

132 درجہ بندیاں

شہری

City

ٹیکنالوجی

The Beautiful Struggle

از 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+

یادداشت

خود نوشت

نسل

The Beautiful Struggle

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

از Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 صفحات

4.08

11,000+ درجہ بندیاں

یادداشت

خود نوشت

نسل

Tactical Urbanism

از Mike Lydon • 2014

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

3.99

315

شہر

شہری

ڈیزائن

Tactical Urbanism

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

از Mike Lydon 2014 256 صفحات

3.99

315 درجہ بندیاں

شہر

شہری

ڈیزائن

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

از Carmelo Anthony • 2021

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

4.07

1,000+

یادداشت

کھیل

سوانح عمری

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

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

از Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 صفحات

4.07

1,000+ درجہ بندیاں

یادداشت

کھیل

سوانح عمری

City of Gold

از Jim Krane • 2009

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

3.97

500+

تاریخ

سیاست

معاشیات

City of Gold

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

از Jim Krane 2009 368 صفحات

3.97

500+ درجہ بندیاں

تاریخ

سیاست

معاشیات

Marry Me, Stranger

از Novoneel Chakraborty • 2014

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

3.97

4,000+

تھرلر

اسرار

سسپنس

Marry Me, Stranger

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

از Novoneel Chakraborty 2014 268 صفحات

3.97

4,000+ درجہ بندیاں

تھرلر

اسرار

سسپنس

Flesh and Stone

از Richard Sennett • 1996

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

4.28

500+

تاریخ

فن تعمیر

شہری

Flesh and Stone

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

از Richard Sennett 1996 432 صفحات

4.28

500+ درجہ بندیاں

تاریخ

فن تعمیر

شہری

اسٹارٹ اپ کمیونٹیز

از بریڈ فیلڈ • 2012

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

4.01

2,000+

کاروبار

کاروباری صلاحیت

قیادت

اسٹارٹ اپ کمیونٹیز

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

از بریڈ فیلڈ 2012 188 صفحات

4.01

2,000+ درجہ بندیاں

کاروبار

کاروباری صلاحیت

قیادت

A Moment of Silence

از Sister Souljah • 2015

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

4.32

1,000+

رومانس

شہری

افریقی امریکی

A Moment of Silence

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

از Sister Souljah 2015 544 صفحات

4.32

1,000+ درجہ بندیاں

رومانس

شہری

افریقی امریکی

Call of the Mall

از Paco Underhill • 2004

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

3.63

1,000+

کاروبار

سماجیات

نفسیات

Call of the Mall

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

از Paco Underhill 2004 240 صفحات

3.63

1,000+ درجہ بندیاں

کاروبار

سماجیات

نفسیات

The Sins of the Fathers

از Lawrence Block • 1976

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

3.87

12,000+

اسرار

جرائم

Noir

The Sins of the Fathers

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

از Lawrence Block 1976 182 صفحات

3.87

12,000+ درجہ بندیاں

اسرار

جرائم

Noir

The Basketball Diaries

از Jim Carroll • 1978

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

3.99

31,000+

یادداشت

خود نوشت

منشیات

The Basketball Diaries

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

از Jim Carroll 1978 224 صفحات

3.99

31,000+ درجہ بندیاں

یادداشت

خود نوشت

منشیات

The Big Truck that Went By

از Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

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

4.12

1,000+

تاریخ

سیاست

سماجیات

The Big Truck that Went By

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

از Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 صفحات

4.12

1,000+ درجہ بندیاں

تاریخ

سیاست

سماجیات

Capital City

از Samuel Stein • 2019

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

3.92

1,000+

سیاست

معاشیات

شہر

Capital City

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

از Samuel Stein 2019 202 صفحات

3.92

1,000+ درجہ بندیاں

سیاست

معاشیات

شہر

The Hour of the Star

از Clarice Lispector • 1977

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

4.11

58,000+

کلاسیکی ادب

ادبی افسانے

ادب

The Hour of the Star

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

از Clarice Lispector 1977 96 صفحات

4.11

58,000+ درجہ بندیاں

کلاسیکی ادب

ادبی افسانے

ادب

A Renegade History of the United States

از Thaddeus Russell • 2010

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

3.81

1,000+

تاریخ

سیاست

سماجیات

A Renegade History of the United States

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

از Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 صفحات

3.81

1,000+ درجہ بندیاں

تاریخ

سیاست

سماجیات

Radicalized

از Cory Doctorow • 2019

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

4.03

8,000+

سائنس فکشن

ڈسٹوپیا

مختصر کہانیاں

Radicalized

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

از Cory Doctorow 2019 304 صفحات

4.03

8,000+ درجہ بندیاں

سائنس فکشن

ڈسٹوپیا

مختصر کہانیاں

Radical Cities

از Justin McGuirk • 2014

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

4.27

434

فن تعمیر

شہر

Latin America

Radical Cities

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

از Justin McGuirk 2014 304 صفحات

4.27

434 درجہ بندیاں

فن تعمیر

شہر

Latin America

God Hates Us All

از Hank Moody • 2009

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

3.46

4,000+

ادبی افسانے

عصری ادب

امریکی

God Hates Us All

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

از Hank Moody 2009 200 صفحات

3.46

4,000+ درجہ بندیاں

ادبی افسانے

عصری ادب

امریکی

Reliquary

از Douglas Preston • 1997

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

4.04

50,000+

تھرلر

ہارر

اسرار

Reliquary

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

از Douglas Preston 1997 464 صفحات

4.04

50,000+ درجہ بندیاں

تھرلر

ہارر

اسرار

Glory in Death

از J.D. Robb • 1995

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

4.27

73,000+

رومانوی سسپنس

اسرار

رومانس

Glory in Death

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

از J.D. Robb 1995 296 صفحات

4.27

73,000+ درجہ بندیاں

رومانوی سسپنس

اسرار

رومانس

Speedboat

از Renata Adler • 1976

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

3.75

7,000+

ادبی افسانے

کلاسیکی ادب

امریکی

Speedboat

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

از Renata Adler 1976 192 صفحات

3.75

7,000+ درجہ بندیاں

ادبی افسانے

کلاسیکی ادب

امریکی

The Warriors

از Sol Yurick • 1965

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

3.37

2,000+

جرائم

کلاسیکی ادب

ادبی افسانے

The Warriors

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

از Sol Yurick 1965 212 صفحات

3.37

2,000+ درجہ بندیاں

جرائم

کلاسیکی ادب

ادبی افسانے

The Pleasures of the Damned

از Charles Bukowski • 2007

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

4.35

7,000+

شاعری

کلاسیکی ادب

ادب

The Pleasures of the Damned

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

از Charles Bukowski 2007 557 صفحات

4.35

7,000+ درجہ بندیاں

شاعری

کلاسیکی ادب

ادب

Streetfight

از Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

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

4.26

2,000+

شہری

ڈیزائن

سیاست

Streetfight

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

از Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 صفحات

4.26

2,000+ درجہ بندیاں

شہری

ڈیزائن

سیاست

Ethic 3

از Ashley Antoinette • 2018

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

4.54

5,000+

رومانس

شہری

افریقی امریکی

Ethic 3

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

از Ashley Antoinette 2018 264 صفحات

4.54

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

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Municipal Dreams

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

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Municipal Dreams

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

از John Boughton 2018 336 صفحات

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