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The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

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Soft City

101 Things I Learned® in Urban Design School

Human Transit (Revised Edition)

The 99% Invisible City

Form and Flow

Darwin Comes to Town

Curbing Traffic

The Pedestrian and the City

Building the Cycling City

Land is a Big Deal

The Nature of Our Cities

Bicycle City

A City Is Not a Computer

Humanise

Healthy Cities?

A Life in Education and Architecture

Twentieth-Century Suburbs

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Transport and Urban Development

Urban Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa