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

The Street

저자: Ann Petry • 1946

Harlem, 1940s. A single mother rents a room. The super watches. The street waits.

4.27

13,000+

🏙️ Social Realism 🖤 Black Womanhood ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🧹 Domestic Work 🎷 1940s Harlem

The Street

Harlem, 1940s. A single mother rents a room. The super watches. The street waits.

저자: Ann Petry 1946 435 페이지

4.27

13,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Social Realism 🖤 Black Womanhood ⛓️ Systemic Racism 🧹 Domestic Work 🎷 1940s Harlem

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

El vampiro de la colonia Roma

저자: Luis Zapata • 1979

A Mexico City hustler records his life of sex, drugs, and survival in one unflinching confession.

3.90

3,000+

🎭 Picaresque 💋 Sex Work 📝 Confessional Novel 🖤 Mentor To Lover 😏 Dark Humor

El vampiro de la colonia Roma

A Mexico City hustler records his life of sex, drugs, and survival in one unflinching confession.

저자: Luis Zapata 1979 224 페이지

3.90

3,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Picaresque 💋 Sex Work 📝 Confessional Novel 🖤 Mentor To Lover 😏 Dark Humor

City of Women

저자: Christine Stansell • 1986

In early New York, working-class women built a hidden city of mutual aid and sexual exchange.

3.89

500+

👩 Working-Class Women 👷 Labor History 🏚️ Urban Poverty 👥 Sex And Class 🏠 Cult Of Domesticity

City of Women

In early New York, working-class women built a hidden city of mutual aid and sexual exchange.

저자: Christine Stansell 1986 320 페이지

3.89

500+ 개의 평점

👩 Working-Class Women 👷 Labor History 🏚️ Urban Poverty 👥 Sex And Class 🏠 Cult Of Domesticity

The Road Taken

저자: Henry Petroski • 2016

The $121 billion congestion tax: what the history of pavement says about fixing America's roads.

3.44

500+

🏛️ Infrastructure Policy 🔧 Engineering History 🛣️ Road Design 🚦 Traffic Engineering ⚠️ Failure Studies

The Road Taken

The $121 billion congestion tax: what the history of pavement says about fixing America's roads.

저자: Henry Petroski 2016 322 페이지

3.44

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Infrastructure Policy 🔧 Engineering History 🛣️ Road Design 🚦 Traffic Engineering ⚠️ Failure Studies

스타트업 시티

저자: 피터 S. 코한 • 2018

Global startup success clusters in a handful of cities. A five-stage ladder explains the pattern.

3.50

🏢 Startup Ecosystems 🗺️ Economic Clusters 💰 Venture Capital 🎓 University-Industry Ties 🏗️ Regional Development

스타트업 시티

Global startup success clusters in a handful of cities. A five-stage ladder explains the pattern.

저자: 피터 S. 코한 2018 286 페이지

3.50

6 개의 평점

🏢 Startup Ecosystems 🗺️ Economic Clusters 💰 Venture Capital 🎓 University-Industry Ties 🏗️ Regional Development

How Infrastructure Works

저자: Deb Chachra • 2023

The hidden networks you rely on were built for a climate that no longer exists.

3.64

500+

🏗️ Infrastructure Design 🧩 Systems Thinking 🕸️ Network Effects ⚡ Energy Transition ⚖️ Environmental Justice

How Infrastructure Works

The hidden networks you rely on were built for a climate that no longer exists.

저자: Deb Chachra 2023 320 페이지

3.64

500+ 개의 평점

🏗️ Infrastructure Design 🧩 Systems Thinking 🕸️ Network Effects ⚡ Energy Transition ⚖️ Environmental Justice

The Doorman

저자: Chris Pavone • 2025

A Manhattan doorman in debt opens his tower to armed robbers. Old secrets turn the heist lethal.

3.85

15,000+

🖋️ Literary Thriller 💰 Heist Thriller 💔 Unhappy Marriage 🔥 Illicit Affair ⚖️ Class Tension

The Doorman

A Manhattan doorman in debt opens his tower to armed robbers. Old secrets turn the heist lethal.

저자: Chris Pavone 2025 388 페이지

3.85

15,000+ 개의 평점

🖋️ Literary Thriller 💰 Heist Thriller 💔 Unhappy Marriage 🔥 Illicit Affair ⚖️ Class Tension

The Battle of Jericho

저자: Sharon M. Draper • 2003

Elite secret club tempts teen trumpeter into cruel initiations, absolute silence, and a fatal leap.

4.14

4,000+

🕵️ Secret Society ⚠️ Hazing Rituals 💀 Fatal Hazing 🤫 Pact Of Silence 🫡 Blind Loyalty

The Battle of Jericho

Elite secret club tempts teen trumpeter into cruel initiations, absolute silence, and a fatal leap.

저자: Sharon M. Draper 2003 352 페이지

4.14

4,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Secret Society ⚠️ Hazing Rituals 💀 Fatal Hazing 🤫 Pact Of Silence 🫡 Blind Loyalty

Finding My Bodyguard

저자: A. Blossom • 2024

A mafia pawn flees an arranged marriage with a surgeon who rejected his cartel legacy.

4.35

3,000+

🖤 Mafia Romance 🖤 Black Love 👑 Mafia Princess 💍 Arranged Marriage 🛡️ Bodyguard Romance

Finding My Bodyguard

A mafia pawn flees an arranged marriage with a surgeon who rejected his cartel legacy.

저자: A. Blossom 2024 190 페이지

4.35

3,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Mafia Romance 🖤 Black Love 👑 Mafia Princess 💍 Arranged Marriage 🛡️ Bodyguard Romance

빅 슬립

저자: 레이먼드 챈들러 • 1988

A dying millionaire, two wild daughters, and a PI whose blackmail case leads straight into murder.

3.94

100,000+

🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 🖤 Noir Fiction 💋 Femme Fatale 💰 Corrupt Wealthy Family 🔪 Murder Cover-Up

빅 슬립

A dying millionaire, two wild daughters, and a PI whose blackmail case leads straight into murder.

저자: 레이먼드 챈들러 1988 231 페이지

3.94

100,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Hardboiled Detective 🖤 Noir Fiction 💋 Femme Fatale 💰 Corrupt Wealthy Family 🔪 Murder Cover-Up

Moon Palace

저자: Paul Auster • 1989

As the world watches the moon landing, an orphaned student starves alone in New York.

3.98

29,000+

🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🤫 Family Secrets 🎭 Picaresque Novel 💭 Existential Fiction

Moon Palace

As the world watches the moon landing, an orphaned student starves alone in New York.

저자: Paul Auster 1989 320 페이지

3.98

29,000+ 개의 평점

🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🤫 Family Secrets 🎭 Picaresque Novel 💭 Existential Fiction

The Option of Urbanism

저자: Christopher B. Leinberger • 2007

America's car suburbs were built by policy, not consumer choice. The market now wants the opposite.

3.89

185

🏙️ Urban Planning 🏘️ Sprawl 🏗️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏚️ Gentrification

The Option of Urbanism

America's car suburbs were built by policy, not consumer choice. The market now wants the opposite.

저자: Christopher B. Leinberger 2007 224 페이지

3.89

185 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Planning 🏘️ Sprawl 🏗️ New Urbanism 🚶 Walkable Cities 🏚️ Gentrification

Gaffs

저자: Rory Hearne • 2022

Why Ireland's housing crisis is not a market failure but a government strategy to enrich investors.

3.52

171

🏚️ Housing Crisis 🇮🇪 Irish Housing 📜 Housing Policy 💸 Rental Crisis 🏦 Financialized Housing

Gaffs

Why Ireland's housing crisis is not a market failure but a government strategy to enrich investors.

저자: Rory Hearne 2022 352 페이지

3.52

171 개의 평점

🏚️ Housing Crisis 🇮🇪 Irish Housing 📜 Housing Policy 💸 Rental Crisis 🏦 Financialized Housing

Super Human

저자: Michael Carroll • 2006

A plague fells every adult superhero. Five teenagers must stop an immortal conqueror's return.

4.09

2,000+

🦸 Teen Superhero Team 🫂 Found Family 🔄 Villain Redemption 🤷 Reluctant Heroes 💥 Comic Book Energy

Super Human

A plague fells every adult superhero. Five teenagers must stop an immortal conqueror's return.

저자: Michael Carroll 2006 336 페이지

4.09

2,000+ 개의 평점

🦸 Teen Superhero Team 🫂 Found Family 🔄 Villain Redemption 🤷 Reluctant Heroes 💥 Comic Book Energy

The Just City

저자: Susan S. Fainstein • 2010

Stop asking if a city is growing. Start asking who it's growing for.

3.75

174

🏙️ Urban Policy 📐 Planning Theory ⚖️ Distributive Justice 🏛️ Urban Political Economy 💼 Neoliberal Critique

The Just City

Stop asking if a city is growing. Start asking who it's growing for.

저자: Susan S. Fainstein 2010 224 페이지

3.75

174 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Policy 📐 Planning Theory ⚖️ Distributive Justice 🏛️ Urban Political Economy 💼 Neoliberal Critique

Sidewalk

저자: Mitchell Duneier • 1999

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

4.15

1,000+

🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate 👮 Police Discretion 🚶‍♀️ Street Harassment

Sidewalk

Some of the most disorderly figures on the sidewalk are also the ones preventing real crime.

저자: Mitchell Duneier 1999 400 페이지

4.15

1,000+ 개의 평점

🛝 Urban Ethnography 💰 Informal Economies 🚨 Broken Windows Debate 👮 Police Discretion 🚶‍♀️ Street Harassment

Boom Town

저자: Nic Stone • 2025

Two dancers vanish from an Atlanta strip club, years apart. One wealthy patron connects them both.

3.42

3,000+

🕵️ Missing Women ⚠️ Serial Predator 💕 Sapphic Love Story 🤝 Women Protecting Women 🫂 Found Family

Boom Town

Two dancers vanish from an Atlanta strip club, years apart. One wealthy patron connects them both.

저자: Nic Stone 2025 288 페이지

3.42

3,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Missing Women ⚠️ Serial Predator 💕 Sapphic Love Story 🤝 Women Protecting Women 🫂 Found Family

Seporsi Mie Ayam Sebelum Mati

저자: Brian Khrisna • 2025

He plans to die today. His only wish: chicken noodles from a Jakarta street stall.

3.80

4,000+

🖤 Suicidal Protagonist 🌱 Mental Health Journey 🏙️ Urban Loneliness 🤝 Found Family ⏱️ One Day Timeline

Seporsi Mie Ayam Sebelum Mati

He plans to die today. His only wish: chicken noodles from a Jakarta street stall.

저자: Brian Khrisna 2025 216 페이지

3.80

4,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Suicidal Protagonist 🌱 Mental Health Journey 🏙️ Urban Loneliness 🤝 Found Family ⏱️ One Day Timeline

The Maintenance Man

저자: Michael Baisden • 1999

A male escort with his father's charm meets a dancer who wants the man beneath the moves.

4.25

6,000+

💼 Male Escort Fiction 🔄 Reformed Playboy 💕 Second Chance Romance 🌶️ Steamy Drama 📼 1990s Setting

The Maintenance Man

A male escort with his father's charm meets a dancer who wants the man beneath the moves.

저자: Michael Baisden 1999 305 페이지

4.25

6,000+ 개의 평점

💼 Male Escort Fiction 🔄 Reformed Playboy 💕 Second Chance Romance 🌶️ Steamy Drama 📼 1990s Setting

Bleeding Edge

저자: Thomas Pynchon • 2013

A defrocked investigator follows a tech firm's money into a virtual underworld as catastrophe looms.

3.62

14,000+

📖🔍 Postmodern Mystery 🗽 Pre-9/11 New York 👩‍💼 Female Investigator 🕸️ Deep Web 🕶️ Virtual Reality

Bleeding Edge

A defrocked investigator follows a tech firm's money into a virtual underworld as catastrophe looms.

저자: Thomas Pynchon 2013 477 페이지

3.62

14,000+ 개의 평점

📖🔍 Postmodern Mystery 🗽 Pre-9/11 New York 👩‍💼 Female Investigator 🕸️ Deep Web 🕶️ Virtual Reality

The Savage Detectives

저자: Roberto Bolaño • 1998

Mexico City, 1970s. Young poets abandon their lives to hunt a vanished writer across the desert.

4.18

53,000+

📚 Literary Underground ✒️ Failed Poets 🗣️ Oral History 🏙️ Mexico City 🔍 Literary Obsession

The Savage Detectives

Mexico City, 1970s. Young poets abandon their lives to hunt a vanished writer across the desert.

저자: Roberto Bolaño 1998 577 페이지

4.18

53,000+ 개의 평점

📚 Literary Underground ✒️ Failed Poets 🗣️ Oral History 🏙️ Mexico City 🔍 Literary Obsession

Places of the Heart

저자: Colin Ellard • 2010

How every space you enter, room, street, or screen, quietly rewires your brain.

3.58

500+

🧠 Environmental Psychology 🏗️ Built Environment 🏙️ Urban Design 🌿 Biophilia 🏠 Place Attachment

Places of the Heart

How every space you enter, room, street, or screen, quietly rewires your brain.

저자: Colin Ellard 2010 256 페이지

3.58

500+ 개의 평점

🧠 Environmental Psychology 🏗️ Built Environment 🏙️ Urban Design 🌿 Biophilia 🏠 Place Attachment

Justice's Rose

저자: Mel Dau • 2021

A trauma survivor weds a hitman. Her abuser walks free. Their love is a loaded gun.

4.75

500+

🏙️ Urban Romance 🔫 Hitman Hero 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ⚔️ Touch Her And Die 🧠 Bipolar Disorder

Justice's Rose

A trauma survivor weds a hitman. Her abuser walks free. Their love is a loaded gun.

저자: Mel Dau 2021 260 페이지

4.75

500+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Romance 🔫 Hitman Hero 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ⚔️ Touch Her And Die 🧠 Bipolar Disorder

Tiohtiáke

저자: Michel Jean • 2021

An Innu ex-con, banished to Montreal's streets, must survive the winter and the violence inside.

4.19

4,000+

🌆 Indigenous Urban Life 🌃 Street Survival 🤝 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma 🌿 Cultural Reconnection

Tiohtiáke

An Innu ex-con, banished to Montreal's streets, must survive the winter and the violence inside.

저자: Michel Jean 2021 192 페이지

4.19

4,000+ 개의 평점

🌆 Indigenous Urban Life 🌃 Street Survival 🤝 Found Family 💔 Generational Trauma 🌿 Cultural Reconnection

White Flight

저자: Kevin M. Kruse • 2005

How Atlanta's white flight invented modern conservatism, one homeowners' association at a time.

4.28

1,000+

🏙️ Urban History 🌊 White Flight 🐘 Modern Conservatism ⚡ Civil Rights Backlash 🍑 Southern Politics

White Flight

How Atlanta's white flight invented modern conservatism, one homeowners' association at a time.

저자: Kevin M. Kruse 2005 352 페이지

4.28

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban History 🌊 White Flight 🐘 Modern Conservatism ⚡ Civil Rights Backlash 🍑 Southern Politics

The Last Sad Love Song

저자: Kimberly Brown • 2022

A betrayed baker bids on a stranger at auction and finds a love worth the risk.

4.52

3,000+

🕊️ Second Chance At Love 🖤 Black Romance 🧁 Baking And Romance 🏡 Found Family 🔥 Sweet And Steamy

The Last Sad Love Song

A betrayed baker bids on a stranger at auction and finds a love worth the risk.

저자: Kimberly Brown 2022 170 페이지

4.52

3,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ Second Chance At Love 🖤 Black Romance 🧁 Baking And Romance 🏡 Found Family 🔥 Sweet And Steamy

Why Cities Lose

저자: Jonathan A. Rodden • 2019

The left's real problem isn't gerrymandering: its voters are packed into cities.

3.78

252

🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide 🗳️ Electoral Systems ✂️ Gerrymandering 📊 Proportional Representation 🌍 Political Geography

Why Cities Lose

The left's real problem isn't gerrymandering: its voters are packed into cities.

저자: Jonathan A. Rodden 2019 336 페이지

3.78

252 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide 🗳️ Electoral Systems ✂️ Gerrymandering 📊 Proportional Representation 🌍 Political Geography

Rah

저자: Jessica N. Watkins • 2025

A mother discovers her partner's secret family, and now his crimes threaten to bury her alive.

4.42

2,000+

🏙️ Urban Fiction 💔 Toxic Relationship 🎭 Secret Double Life 🩹 Healing After Abuse 🤝 Chosen Family

Rah

A mother discovers her partner's secret family, and now his crimes threaten to bury her alive.

저자: Jessica N. Watkins 2025 584 페이지

4.42

2,000+ 개의 평점

🏙️ Urban Fiction 💔 Toxic Relationship 🎭 Secret Double Life 🩹 Healing After Abuse 🤝 Chosen Family

The Ruined Map

저자: Kōbō Abe • 1967

When a salaryman vanishes, a detective follows a matchbox into a city where maps lead nowhere.

3.45

2,000+

🖤 Existential Noir 🌃 Japanese Noir 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔍 Obsessive Investigation 🏙️ Urban Alienation

The Ruined Map

When a salaryman vanishes, a detective follows a matchbox into a city where maps lead nowhere.

저자: Kōbō Abe 1967 304 페이지

3.45

2,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Existential Noir 🌃 Japanese Noir 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🔍 Obsessive Investigation 🏙️ Urban Alienation

City of Echoes

저자: Jessica Wärnberg • 2023

Rome's popes: from a fisherman's grave to global power, the 2,000-year struggle for supremacy.

3.60

🏛️ Papal History 🎖️ Papal Authority ⚔️ Church-State Conflict 🎨 Art Patronage 🎭 Renaissance Papacy

City of Echoes

Rome's popes: from a fisherman's grave to global power, the 2,000-year struggle for supremacy.

저자: Jessica Wärnberg 2023 448 페이지

3.60

78 개의 평점

🏛️ Papal History 🎖️ Papal Authority ⚔️ Church-State Conflict 🎨 Art Patronage 🎭 Renaissance Papacy

Progress and Poverty

저자: Henry George • 1879

Machines and wealth multiply, yet wages fall and poverty deepens. The root is under every city.

4.30

500+

🏛️ Political Economy 📚 Classical Economics ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🌍 Land Reform 🏞️ Commons And Enclosure

Progress and Poverty

Machines and wealth multiply, yet wages fall and poverty deepens. The root is under every city.

저자: Henry George 1879 599 페이지

4.30

500+ 개의 평점

🏛️ Political Economy 📚 Classical Economics ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🌍 Land Reform 🏞️ Commons And Enclosure

Rough Sleepers

저자: Tracy Kidder • 2023

The homeless die ten times faster. A Boston doctor found that trust is the only cure.

4.34

11,000+

🏥 Homeless Healthcare 🧱 Structural Inequality 🏙️ Urban Poverty 💊 Harm Reduction 📰 Narrative Journalism

Rough Sleepers

The homeless die ten times faster. A Boston doctor found that trust is the only cure.

저자: Tracy Kidder 2023 320 페이지

4.34

11,000+ 개의 평점

🏥 Homeless Healthcare 🧱 Structural Inequality 🏙️ Urban Poverty 💊 Harm Reduction 📰 Narrative Journalism

Working Toward Whiteness

저자: David R. Roediger • 2005

Southern and Eastern Europeans were not white when they arrived. The journey that changed that.

3.83

370

🧳 Immigration History 👥 Whiteness Studies 🏭 Racialized Labor 🏡 Housing Segregation ✊ Labor Unions And Race

Working Toward Whiteness

Southern and Eastern Europeans were not white when they arrived. The journey that changed that.

저자: David R. Roediger 2005 339 페이지

3.83

370 개의 평점

🧳 Immigration History 👥 Whiteness Studies 🏭 Racialized Labor 🏡 Housing Segregation ✊ Labor Unions And Race

Last Night in Brooklyn

저자: Xóchitl González • 2026

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

3.65

4,000+

🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family 📉 Tragic Rise And Fall 💔 Love Triangle

Last Night in Brooklyn

A woman caught between old Brooklyn and new follows a fashion designer's IPO into glamour and ruin.

저자: Xóchitl González 2026 256 페이지

3.65

4,000+ 개의 평점

🏗️ Gentrifying Brooklyn 🔥 Ambitious Women 👯 Found Family 📉 Tragic Rise And Fall 💔 Love Triangle

Improving Poor People

저자: Michael B. Katz • 1995

Why America keeps trying to fix the poor instead of poverty, and what history reveals.

3.83

📉 Poverty Policy 🏛️ Welfare State 🎯 Blaming The Victim ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🏙️ Urban Poverty

Improving Poor People

Why America keeps trying to fix the poor instead of poverty, and what history reveals.

저자: Michael B. Katz 1995 192 페이지

3.83

12 개의 평점

📉 Poverty Policy 🏛️ Welfare State 🎯 Blaming The Victim ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🏙️ Urban Poverty

Punishing the Poor

저자: Loïc Wacquant • 2004

Welfare cuts and mass incarceration are two sides of the same neoliberal project, not opposites.

4.21

277

🏛️ Mass Incarceration 💸 Neoliberal Critique 🚫 Criminalizing Poverty 🔒 Carceral State ⚖️ Sociology Of Punishment

Punishing the Poor

Welfare cuts and mass incarceration are two sides of the same neoliberal project, not opposites.

저자: Loïc Wacquant 2004 384 페이지

4.21

277 개의 평점

🏛️ Mass Incarceration 💸 Neoliberal Critique 🚫 Criminalizing Poverty 🔒 Carceral State ⚖️ Sociology Of Punishment

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster

저자: Paul Auster • 1987

Anna searches a nameless, crumbling city for her brother while hunger and forgetting consume all.

3.91

16,000+

✉️ Epistolary Dystopia 🏚️ Collapsing City 🤝 Found Family 💀 Death Cults 🍂 Elegiac Dystopia

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster

Anna searches a nameless, crumbling city for her brother while hunger and forgetting consume all.

저자: Paul Auster 1987

3.91

16,000+ 개의 평점

✉️ Epistolary Dystopia 🏚️ Collapsing City 🤝 Found Family 💀 Death Cults 🍂 Elegiac Dystopia

Nowhere to Live

저자: James S. Burling • 2024

Why can't Americans afford homes? A century of rules made building them illegal.

4.00

🏠 Housing Policy 🏛️ Property Rights 🏗️ Zoning Reform ⚖️ Eminent Domain 📜 Government Overreach

Nowhere to Live

Why can't Americans afford homes? A century of rules made building them illegal.

저자: James S. Burling 2024 408 페이지

4.00

12 개의 평점

🏠 Housing Policy 🏛️ Property Rights 🏗️ Zoning Reform ⚖️ Eminent Domain 📜 Government Overreach

Homeboyz

저자: Alan Sitomer • 2007

His sister killed by gangs, a teen genius must choose between revenge and saving a boy.

4.34

2,000+

🔫 Gang Drama ⚔️ Revenge Quest 🧑‍🏫 Reluctant Mentor 🏠 Found Family 💔 Broken Home

Homeboyz

His sister killed by gangs, a teen genius must choose between revenge and saving a boy.

저자: Alan Sitomer 2007 288 페이지

4.34

2,000+ 개의 평점

🔫 Gang Drama ⚔️ Revenge Quest 🧑‍🏫 Reluctant Mentor 🏠 Found Family 💔 Broken Home

Sunbelt Capitalism

저자: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer • 2013

How Phoenix elites seized government, broke unions, and built a corporate model that remade America.

3.23

☀️ Sunbelt Politics 🏗️ Urban Development 🏢 Corporate Power ⚒️ Anti-Union Politics 🏛️ Political Economy

Sunbelt Capitalism

How Phoenix elites seized government, broke unions, and built a corporate model that remade America.

저자: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 2013 432 페이지

3.23

22 개의 평점

☀️ Sunbelt Politics 🏗️ Urban Development 🏢 Corporate Power ⚒️ Anti-Union Politics 🏛️ Political Economy

The Night Always Comes

저자: Willy Vlautin • 2021

A Portland waitress has one night to make a down payment or her family loses everything.

3.83

7,000+

🪙 Economic Desperation 🫂 Sibling Caretaker 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 🏗️ Gentrification ⚖️ Moral Compromise

The Night Always Comes

A Portland waitress has one night to make a down payment or her family loses everything.

저자: Willy Vlautin 2021 208 페이지

3.83

7,000+ 개의 평점

🪙 Economic Desperation 🫂 Sibling Caretaker 👩‍👧 Mothers And Daughters 🏗️ Gentrification ⚖️ Moral Compromise

It's Hard to Be an Animal

저자: Robert Isaacs • 2026

A shy New Yorker hears animals speak. Their bitter honesty makes the city feel impossibly cruel.

3.91

500+

🐾 Talking Animals 💕 Opposites Attract 🏠 Found Family 🧠 Anxious Protagonist 🐕 Dog Companion

It's Hard to Be an Animal

A shy New Yorker hears animals speak. Their bitter honesty makes the city feel impossibly cruel.

저자: Robert Isaacs 2026 288 페이지

3.91

500+ 개의 평점

🐾 Talking Animals 💕 Opposites Attract 🏠 Found Family 🧠 Anxious Protagonist 🐕 Dog Companion

Hard Times

저자: Jeff Boyd • 2026

A Chicago cop buried a murder. Fifteen years later, two teenagers found the knife.

3.69

225

🚔 Police Corruption 🧬 Generational Trauma ⚖️ Systemic Injustice 📚 African American Literature 🏙️ Social Realism

Hard Times

A Chicago cop buried a murder. Fifteen years later, two teenagers found the knife.

저자: Jeff Boyd 2026 352 페이지

3.69

225 개의 평점

🚔 Police Corruption 🧬 Generational Trauma ⚖️ Systemic Injustice 📚 African American Literature 🏙️ Social Realism

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