도시

도시는 무한한 가능성으로 맥동하며, 건축가, 도시계획가, 그리고 비전을 가진 이들이 우리의 도시 경관을 재구상하고 현대 대도시 생활의 과제에 도전합니다. 이 책들은 스마트 디자인, 기술, 그리고 인간 중심의 계획이 어떻게 콘크리트 정글을 수백만 명이 번영하는 활기차고 지속 가능한 커뮤니티로 변화시킬 수 있는지 탐구합니다.

도시 도서 요약

더 키드

저자: 사파이어

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

2.70

2,000+

🌀 Cycle Of Abuse 🏚️ Foster Care System ⛪ Institutional Abuse 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🗽 1990s New York

몰입형

더 키드

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

저자: 사파이어 2003 374 페이지

2.70

2,000+ 개의 평점

🌀 Cycle Of Abuse 🏚️ Foster Care System ⛪ Institutional Abuse 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🗽 1990s New York

Bowling Alone

저자: Robert D. Putnam • 2000

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

3.85

9,000+

🏛️ Social Capital 🗳️ Civic Engagement 📉 Community Decline 🏠 Social Isolation 🔄 Generational Change

Bowling Alone

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

저자: Robert D. Putnam 2000 544 페이지

3.85

9,000+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Social Capital 🗳️ Civic Engagement 📉 Community Decline 🏠 Social Isolation 🔄 Generational Change

Liquid Times

저자: Zygmunt Bauman • 2007

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

3.87

1,000+

🧠 Social Theory 🏭 Late Capitalism ⚠️ Precarity 😨 Culture Of Fear 🧳 Displacement

Liquid Times

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

저자: Zygmunt Bauman 2007 128 페이지

3.87

1,000+ 개의 평점

🧠 Social Theory 🏭 Late Capitalism ⚠️ Precarity 😨 Culture Of Fear 🧳 Displacement

Evicted

저자: Matthew Desmond • 2016

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

4.47

100,000+

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity ✊ Racial Inequality 🔄 Poverty Cycle 📖 Narrative Ethnography

Evicted

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

저자: Matthew Desmond 2016 418 페이지

4.47

100,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity ✊ Racial Inequality 🔄 Poverty Cycle 📖 Narrative Ethnography

The New Geography Of Jobs

저자: Enrico Moretti • 2012

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

4.03

2,000+

🗺️ Economic Geography 💡 Innovation Clusters 🎓 Human Capital 🚚 Geographic Mobility ⚖️ Spatial Inequality

The New Geography Of Jobs

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

저자: Enrico Moretti 2012 304 페이지

4.03

2,000+ 개의 평점

🗺️ Economic Geography 💡 Innovation Clusters 🎓 Human Capital 🚚 Geographic Mobility ⚖️ Spatial Inequality

블랙 에코

저자: 마이클 코널리 • 1992

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

4.14

200,000+

🏙️ Los Angeles Noir 🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 💰 Heist Gone Wrong 🕴️ Corrupt Fbi Agent 👮 Police Procedural

블랙 에코

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

저자: 마이클 코널리 1992 482 페이지

4.14

200,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Los Angeles Noir 🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 💰 Heist Gone Wrong 🕴️ Corrupt Fbi Agent 👮 Police Procedural

The Cross and the Switchblade

저자: 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+

🏙️ Urban Ministry 🤝 Gang Intervention ✝️ Faith-Based Recovery 💊 Addiction Recovery 🔥 Pentecostal Testimony

The Cross and the Switchblade

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

저자: David Wilkerson 1963 176 페이지

4.27

60,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Ministry 🤝 Gang Intervention ✝️ Faith-Based Recovery 💊 Addiction Recovery 🔥 Pentecostal Testimony

The Flea Palace

저자: Elif Shafak • 2002

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

3.39

7,000+

🕌 Istanbul Novel 🏢 Building As Microcosm 🕸️ Interconnected Lives 🎭 Eccentric Neighbors 🏚️ Urban Decay

The Flea Palace

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

저자: Elif Shafak 2002 448 페이지

3.39

7,000+ 개의 평점

🕌 Istanbul Novel 🏢 Building As Microcosm 🕸️ Interconnected Lives 🎭 Eccentric Neighbors 🏚️ Urban Decay

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

저자: Damilare Kuku • 2024

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

4.00

9,000+

📚 Linked Short Stories 🌆 Contemporary Lagos 🖤 Dark Comedy 🇳🇬 Nigerian Women 😏 Relationship Satire

Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

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

저자: Damilare Kuku 2024

4.00

9,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Linked Short Stories 🌆 Contemporary Lagos 🖤 Dark Comedy 🇳🇬 Nigerian Women 😏 Relationship Satire

Wind Breaker 2

저자: Satoru Nii • 2021

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

4.38

1,000+

👊 Delinquent School 🤝 Rivals To Brothers ⚖️ Honor Code 🔄 Redemption Arc 🥊 Street Brawls

Wind Breaker 2

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

저자: Satoru Nii 2021 192 페이지

4.38

1,000+ 개의 평점

👊 Delinquent School 🤝 Rivals To Brothers ⚖️ Honor Code 🔄 Redemption Arc 🥊 Street Brawls

노마드 센추리

저자: 가이아 빈스 • 2022

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

3.84

1,000+

🌍 Climate Migration 🏠 Managed Retreat 🚧 Border Politics 💹 Migration Economics 🏛️ Global Governance

노마드 센추리

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

저자: 가이아 빈스 2022 269 페이지

3.84

1,000+ 개의 평점

🌍 Climate Migration 🏠 Managed Retreat 🚧 Border Politics 💹 Migration Economics 🏛️ Global Governance

Evenings and Weekends

저자: Oisín McKenna • 2024

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

3.75

60,000+

🏳️‍🌈 Queer London 🍻 Working-Class Lives 👬 Found Family 🩹 Trauma And Intimacy 🍸 Bittersweet Summer

Evenings and Weekends

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

저자: Oisín McKenna 2024 352 페이지

3.75

60,000+ 개의 평점

🏳️‍🌈 Queer London 🍻 Working-Class Lives 👬 Found Family 🩹 Trauma And Intimacy 🍸 Bittersweet Summer

The Warmth of Other Suns

저자: Isabel Wilkerson • 2010

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

4.48

100,000+

🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History 🗣️ Oral History 🏠 Housing Discrimination

The Warmth of Other Suns

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

저자: Isabel Wilkerson 2010 622 페이지

4.48

100,000+ 개의 평점

🚂 Great Migration ⛓️ Jim Crow Era 🏙️ Urban History 🗣️ Oral History 🏠 Housing Discrimination

Triumph of the City

저자: Edward L. Glaeser • 2011

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

3.91

6,000+

🏙️ Urban Economics 🏗️ City Planning 🏘️ Urban Density 🧠 Human Capital 💡 Knowledge Spillovers

Triumph of the City

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

저자: Edward L. Glaeser 2011 352 페이지

3.91

6,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Economics 🏗️ City Planning 🏘️ Urban Density 🧠 Human Capital 💡 Knowledge Spillovers

Tattoos on the Heart

저자: Gregory Boyle • 2009

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

4.49

30,000+

🕊️ Restorative Justice ⛪ Urban Ministry 🔄 Gang Rehabilitation 🩹 Shame And Healing 🌱 Second Chances

Tattoos on the Heart

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

저자: Gregory Boyle 2009 240 페이지

4.49

30,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ Restorative Justice ⛪ Urban Ministry 🔄 Gang Rehabilitation 🩹 Shame And Healing 🌱 Second Chances

Smart Cities

저자: Anthony M. Townsend • 2013

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

3.61

500+

🏙️ Urban Technology 🔌 Digital Infrastructure 🗳️ Civic Technology 📊 Open Data 🌱 Grassroots Innovation

Smart Cities

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

저자: Anthony M. Townsend 2013 400 페이지

3.61

500+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Technology 🔌 Digital Infrastructure 🗳️ Civic Technology 📊 Open Data 🌱 Grassroots Innovation

The Power Broker

저자: Robert A. Caro • 1974

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

4.53

29,000+

🏙️ Urban Planning 📋 Political Biography ⚡ Power And Democracy 🏚️ Displacement And Communities 🔄 Urban Renewal

The Power Broker

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

저자: Robert A. Caro 1974 1246 페이지

4.53

29,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Planning 📋 Political Biography ⚡ Power And Democracy 🏚️ Displacement And Communities 🔄 Urban Renewal

The Economy of Cities

저자: Jane Jacobs • 1969

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

4.09

1,000+

🏙️ Urban Economics 📦 Import Substitution ⚙️ Division Of Labor 🔄 Systems Thinking 🔀 Heterodox Economics

The Economy of Cities

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

저자: Jane Jacobs 1969 288 페이지

4.09

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Economics 📦 Import Substitution ⚙️ Division Of Labor 🔄 Systems Thinking 🔀 Heterodox Economics

Poverty Safari

저자: Darren McGarvey • 2017

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

4.01

6,000+

🏚️ Urban Poverty 📊 Class Analysis 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🧠 Childhood Trauma 🔁 Cycle Of Poverty

Poverty Safari

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

저자: Darren McGarvey 2017 257 페이지

4.01

6,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Urban Poverty 📊 Class Analysis 💊 Addiction And Recovery 🧠 Childhood Trauma 🔁 Cycle Of Poverty

Scorpions

저자: Walter Dean Myers • 1995

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

3.8

2,000+

🏙️ Gritty Young Adult 🔫 Gang Life 💔 Tragic Friendship 🏚️ Inner City 🌧️ Childhood Lost

Scorpions

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

저자: Walter Dean Myers 1995 216 페이지

3.8

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Gritty Young Adult 🔫 Gang Life 💔 Tragic Friendship 🏚️ Inner City 🌧️ Childhood Lost

Acceleration

저자: 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+

🩸 Serial Killer Thriller 🔍 Teen Sleuths 💧 Survivor's Guilt 🛡️ Reluctant Hero 👥 Found Family

Acceleration

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

저자: Graham McNamee 2003 210 페이지

3.74

5,000+ 개의 평점

🩸 Serial Killer Thriller 🔍 Teen Sleuths 💧 Survivor's Guilt 🛡️ Reluctant Hero 👥 Found Family

Money Hungry

저자: Sharon G. Flake • 2001

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

4.10

4,000+

🪙 Childhood Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity 😰 Financial Anxiety 🍬 Kid Entrepreneur 🏙️ Urban Middle Grade

Money Hungry

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

저자: Sharon G. Flake 2001 188 페이지

4.10

4,000+ 개의 평점

🪙 Childhood Poverty 🏚️ Housing Insecurity 😰 Financial Anxiety 🍬 Kid Entrepreneur 🏙️ Urban Middle Grade

Against the smart city

저자: Adam Greenfield • 2013

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

3.96

132

🏙️ Smart Cities 📐 Urban Planning 🔬 Technological Critique 🤖 Algorithmic Control 💰 Neoliberal Urbanism

Against the smart city

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

저자: Adam Greenfield 2013 152 페이지

3.96

132 개의 평점

🏙️ Smart Cities 📐 Urban Planning 🔬 Technological Critique 🤖 Algorithmic Control 💰 Neoliberal Urbanism

The Beautiful Struggle

저자: 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+

🏙️ Urban Memoir 🖤 African American Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs ✊ Black Nationalism 🎤 Hip-Hop Culture

The Beautiful Struggle

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

저자: Ta-Nehisi Coates 2008 240 페이지

4.08

11,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Memoir 🖤 African American Memoir 🌱 Coming Of Age Memoirs ✊ Black Nationalism 🎤 Hip-Hop Culture

Tactical Urbanism

저자: Mike Lydon • 2014

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

3.99

315

🛠️ Diy Urbanism 🎨 Creative Placemaking 🏗️ Pop-Up Urbanism 🚲 Street Reclamation 🗳️ Participatory Planning

Tactical Urbanism

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

저자: Mike Lydon 2014 256 페이지

3.99

315 개의 평점

🛠️ Diy Urbanism 🎨 Creative Placemaking 🏗️ Pop-Up Urbanism 🚲 Street Reclamation 🗳️ Participatory Planning

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

저자: Carmelo Anthony • 2021

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

4.07

1,000+

🏀 Basketball Memoirs 🏢 Housing Projects ⚖️ Systemic Racism 👩‍👦 Single Mothers 🌆 Urban Coming Of Age

Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised

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

저자: Carmelo Anthony 2021 208 페이지

4.07

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏀 Basketball Memoirs 🏢 Housing Projects ⚖️ Systemic Racism 👩‍👦 Single Mothers 🌆 Urban Coming Of Age

City of Gold

저자: Jim Krane • 2009

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

3.97

500+

🏛️ State Capitalism ⛽ Resource Curse 👑 Gulf Monarchies 🏙️ Instant Cities 👷 Migrant Labor

City of Gold

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

저자: Jim Krane 2009 368 페이지

3.97

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ State Capitalism ⛽ Resource Curse 👑 Gulf Monarchies 🏙️ Instant Cities 👷 Migrant Labor

Marry Me, Stranger

저자: Novoneel Chakraborty • 2014

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

3.97

4,000+

🕵️ Psychological Thriller 🫥 Hidden Identity 🐁 Cat And Mouse 😰 Paranoid Atmosphere 🏙️ Contemporary Mumbai

Marry Me, Stranger

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

저자: Novoneel Chakraborty 2014 268 페이지

3.97

4,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Psychological Thriller 🫥 Hidden Identity 🐁 Cat And Mouse 😰 Paranoid Atmosphere 🏙️ Contemporary Mumbai

Flesh and Stone

저자: Richard Sennett • 1996

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

4.28

500+

🏙️ Urban History 🧬 History Of The Body 🏛️ Architectural Theory 👃 Sensory History 🗺️ Spatial Politics

Flesh and Stone

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

저자: Richard Sennett 1996 432 페이지

4.28

500+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban History 🧬 History Of The Body 🏛️ Architectural Theory 👃 Sensory History 🗺️ Spatial Politics

Startup Communities

저자: Brad Feld • 2012

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

4.01

2,000+

🏙️ Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 🗺️ Regional Development 🕸️ Networked Leadership 🤝 Mentorship Culture 💥 Failure Acceptance

Startup Communities

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

저자: Brad Feld 2012 188 페이지

4.01

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 🗺️ Regional Development 🕸️ Networked Leadership 🤝 Mentorship Culture 💥 Failure Acceptance

Call of the Mall

저자: Paco Underhill • 2004

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

3.63

1,000+

🛒 Retail Anthropology 🧠 Shopping Psychology 🏬 Mall Culture 🏗️ Retail Design 🏪 Consumer Spaces

Call of the Mall

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

저자: Paco Underhill 2004 240 페이지

3.63

1,000+ 개의 평점

🛒 Retail Anthropology 🧠 Shopping Psychology 🏬 Mall Culture 🏗️ Retail Design 🏪 Consumer Spaces

A Moment of Silence

저자: Sister Souljah • 2015

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

4.32

1,000+

🏙️ Street Justice ⚖️ Legal Drama 🔫 Crime Family 🎭 Secret Identity 🤫 Strategic Silence

A Moment of Silence

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

저자: Sister Souljah 2015 544 페이지

4.32

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Street Justice ⚖️ Legal Drama 🔫 Crime Family 🎭 Secret Identity 🤫 Strategic Silence

The Sins of the Fathers

저자: Lawrence Block • 1976

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

3.87

12,000+

🕵️ Hard Boiled Detective 💔 Parent Hires PI 🚬 Fallen Woman Victim ⛪ Corrupt Clergyman 🚫 Unlicensed PI

The Sins of the Fathers

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

저자: Lawrence Block 1976 182 페이지

3.87

12,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Hard Boiled Detective 💔 Parent Hires PI 🚬 Fallen Woman Victim ⛪ Corrupt Clergyman 🚫 Unlicensed PI

The Basketball Diaries

저자: Jim Carroll • 1978

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

3.99

31,000+

🖤 Addiction Memoir 🗽 1960s New York 🏀 Sports As Salvation 🏚️ Gritty Realism 📓 Teenage Diarist

The Basketball Diaries

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

저자: Jim Carroll 1978 224 페이지

3.99

31,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Addiction Memoir 🗽 1960s New York 🏀 Sports As Salvation 🏚️ Gritty Realism 📓 Teenage Diarist

The Big Truck that Went By

저자: Jonathan M. Katz • 2013

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

4.12

1,000+

🆘 Disaster Relief 💰 Foreign Aid Critique 🇭🇹 Haitian History 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🏚️ Post-Disaster Recovery

The Big Truck that Went By

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

저자: Jonathan M. Katz 2013 320 페이지

4.12

1,000+ 개의 평점

🆘 Disaster Relief 💰 Foreign Aid Critique 🇭🇹 Haitian History 📚 Postcolonial Critique 🏚️ Post-Disaster Recovery

Capital City

저자: Samuel Stein • 2019

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

3.92

1,000+

🏙️ Urban Political Economy 🏗️ Gentrification Studies 🚚 Urban Displacement 📖 Marxist Urban Theory 🏠 Housing Justice

Capital City

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

저자: Samuel Stein 2019 202 페이지

3.92

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Political Economy 🏗️ Gentrification Studies 🚚 Urban Displacement 📖 Marxist Urban Theory 🏠 Housing Justice

The Hour of the Star

저자: Clarice Lispector • 1977

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

4.11

58,000+

📚 Existential Fiction 🖋️ Narrator Intrusion 🌾 Overlooked Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty ⏳ Fatalistic Fiction

The Hour of the Star

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

저자: Clarice Lispector 1977 96 페이지

4.11

58,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Existential Fiction 🖋️ Narrator Intrusion 🌾 Overlooked Lives 🏙️ Urban Poverty ⏳ Fatalistic Fiction

A Renegade History of the United States

저자: Thaddeus Russell • 2010

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

3.81

1,000+

📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control 💋 Sexual Politics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Whiteness

A Renegade History of the United States

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

저자: Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 페이지

3.81

1,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control 💋 Sexual Politics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Whiteness

Radicalized

저자: Cory Doctorow • 2019

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

4.03

8,000+

🏙️ Near Future Dystopia 💻 Hacktivism 🧳 Refugee Resilience ✊ Youth-Led Resistance 🏢 Corporate Overreach

Radicalized

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

저자: Cory Doctorow 2019 304 페이지

4.03

8,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Near Future Dystopia 💻 Hacktivism 🧳 Refugee Resilience ✊ Youth-Led Resistance 🏢 Corporate Overreach

Radical Cities

저자: Justin McGuirk • 2014

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

4.27

434

🏚️ Informal Settlements ✊ Activist Architecture 🌎 Latin American Cities ⚖️ Urban Inequality 🚌 Public Transit

Radical Cities

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

저자: Justin McGuirk 2014 304 페이지

4.27

434 개의 평점

🏚️ Informal Settlements ✊ Activist Architecture 🌎 Latin American Cities ⚖️ Urban Inequality 🚌 Public Transit

God Hates Us All

저자: Hank Moody • 2009

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

3.46

4,000+

🗽 Bohemian New York 💔 Toxic Love 😈 Dark Comedy 🌱 Coming Of Age 💊 Drug Dealing

God Hates Us All

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

저자: Hank Moody 2009 200 페이지

3.46

4,000+ 개의 평점

🗽 Bohemian New York 💔 Toxic Love 😈 Dark Comedy 🌱 Coming Of Age 💊 Drug Dealing

Reliquary

저자: Douglas Preston • 1997

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

4.04

50,000+

🧬 Genetic Horror 🏚️ Underground Society 🦴 Body Horror 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🎭 Corrupted Mentor

Reliquary

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

저자: Douglas Preston 1997 464 페이지

4.04

50,000+ 개의 평점

🧬 Genetic Horror 🏚️ Underground Society 🦴 Body Horror 🌫️ Atmospheric Dread 🎭 Corrupted Mentor

Speedboat

저자: Renata Adler • 1976

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

3.75

7,000+

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation 📰 Journalist Narrator 😐 Deadpan Narrator

Speedboat

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

저자: Renata Adler 1976 192 페이지

3.75

7,000+ 개의 평점

🌀 Postmodern Fiction 🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🏙️ Urban Dislocation 📰 Journalist Narrator 😐 Deadpan Narrator

Glory in Death

저자: J.D. Robb • 1995

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

4.27

73,000+

🖤 Haunted Detective 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt 💰 Wealthy Love Interest 💔 Gritty Romance 📺 Media Satire

Glory in Death

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

저자: J.D. Robb 1995 296 페이지

4.27

73,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Haunted Detective 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt 💰 Wealthy Love Interest 💔 Gritty Romance 📺 Media Satire

The Warriors

저자: Sol Yurick • 1965

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

3.37

2,000+

🔪 Literary Crime 👥 Gang Brotherhood 💪 Toxic Masculinity 🏙️ Gritty Realism 🏃 Survival Journey

The Warriors

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

저자: Sol Yurick 1965 212 페이지

3.37

2,000+ 개의 평점

🔪 Literary Crime 👥 Gang Brotherhood 💪 Toxic Masculinity 🏙️ Gritty Realism 🏃 Survival Journey

The Pleasures of the Damned

저자: Charles Bukowski • 2007

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

4.35

7,000+

🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🍺 Dirty Realism 🥃 Hard-Drinking Narrator 🖤 Gallows Humor 🌴 Mid-Century LA

The Pleasures of the Damned

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

저자: Charles Bukowski 2007 557 페이지

4.35

7,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Confessional Poetry 🍺 Dirty Realism 🥃 Hard-Drinking Narrator 🖤 Gallows Humor 🌴 Mid-Century LA

Streetfight

저자: Janette Sadik-Khan • 2016

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

4.26

2,000+

🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space 🚲 Bike Advocacy 🚌 Transit Equity

Streetfight

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

저자: Janette Sadik-Khan 2016 368 페이지

4.26

2,000+ 개의 평점

🛣️ Street Design 🎨 Tactical Urbanism 🌳 Public Space 🚲 Bike Advocacy 🚌 Transit Equity

Ethic 3

저자: Ashley Antoinette • 2018

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

4.54

5,000+

🏙️ Street Lit Romance 💔 Second Chance Love 🕊️ Child Loss 🏠 Found Family 😢 High Angst

Ethic 3

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

저자: Ashley Antoinette 2018 264 페이지

4.54

5,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Street Lit Romance 💔 Second Chance Love 🕊️ Child Loss 🏠 Found Family 😢 High Angst

퍼펙트 케미스트리

저자: 시몬 엘켈레스 • 2008

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

4.04

200,000+

⭐ Star Crossed Lovers ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🔬 Forced Proximity 🔥 Reformed Bad Boy 🎲 Bet Trope

퍼펙트 케미스트리

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

저자: 시몬 엘켈레스 2008 368 페이지

4.04

200,000+ 개의 평점

⭐ Star Crossed Lovers ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🔬 Forced Proximity 🔥 Reformed Bad Boy 🎲 Bet Trope

Municipal Dreams

저자: John Boughton • 2018

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

3.92

500+

🏠 Social Housing 🏙️ Urban History 📋 Housing Policy 🏛️ Welfare State 🏭 Privatization

Municipal Dreams

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

저자: John Boughton 2018 336 페이지

3.92

500+ 개의 평점

🏠 Social Housing 🏙️ Urban History 📋 Housing Policy 🏛️ Welfare State 🏭 Privatization

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