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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time | Jeff Speck

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I've had this one on my shelf for a long time after hearing about it on the What Should I Read Next podcast and finally got to it when it came up as November's #Bookspin. Really interesting discussion of what makes a city livable, healthy, and desirable. @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 6d

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charl08

Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked | Ivan Vladislavic

Kitchen - crockery - fragile!!! MS: summer clothes. V. manuscripts (Missing Persons). MS: study - stationery. But mainly, the boxes say: IV books - MS books - books.

"Three or four boxes of books, says André, 'is normal. Ten or twelve would be unusual, excessive. But this....it's unreasonable man.
If I'd known we were moving a bladdy *library*...."

SaunteringVaguelyDownwards ? The rep from the moving company who came out to verify my estimate of contents also said, "wow, you have a lot of books." ??‍♀️ English professor, it comes with the territory! And that was after I had weeded out and donated 5 full bags! 3mo

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Pogue

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World | Henry Grabar

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I will never look at parking the same way again. I think the title is a bit wrong, it should be “Explains North America”.

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Morr_Books

New York City: A Short History | George J. Lankevich

I'm going for a long weekend to NYC soon and would like to visit a bookstore. As many times as I have been to NYC, I've only been to the Strand, so I welcome some input. What are your favorite NYC bookstores?

Aims42 I‘ve never been either but I would love to visit Sweet Pickle Books (https://www.instagram.com/sweetpicklebooks?igsh=ajl0MGI3bGk3NHps) 7mo

mrp27 Books of Wonder is a great store if you like childrens books, Shakespeare &Co, Three Lives & Company we‘re some of my favorite bookstores in NYC. 7mo

Leftcoastzen I usually went to 112st one there‘s one on Broadway I haven‘t been in , it wasn‘t open last I visited

Book Culture

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Leftcoastzen https://g.co/kgs/fgRt8nv Argosy Book Store
(212) 753-4455

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slategreyskies @Leftcoastzen I was just going to add Book Culture to the list. For me, it was the 112th one as well, but it‘s been a few years since I was last there. One of the things I liked about it was their bookmarks. They were illustrated with stacks of books on them, the spines facing out, and Book Culture written on them. I‘d take a pic, but those bookmarks are likely stuck in a book somewhere, as I haven‘t seen them in a while. 7mo

Morr_Books Thank you so much @Aims42 @mrp27 @Leftcoastzen @slategreyskies !!!! 7mo

Leftcoastzen @slategreyskies there is a lot to love about that store. They have more scholarly books & well curated sale books. 7mo

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Pogue

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World | Henry Grabar

It was a November afternoon in Queens and Jie Zou was looking for a parking spot.
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Sace I just read the description of this book. I may have to read it but I wonder if it will just anger me. 8mo

Pogue @Sace I don‘t know, parking lots anger me as it is. Such a waste of land. My book club picked it. I am very excited for the discussion. 8mo

Sace Just the description angered me! It seems like a great book club pick though! 8mo

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kwmg40

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age | Annalee Newitz

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Newitz looks at 4 ancient cities, Çatalhöyük, Pompeii, Angkor, and Cahokia, and examines the details of everyday life in these urban centres, instead of the major events that other historians tend to focus on.

I finished this book yesterday to wrap up the #FabulousFebruary readathon. Thank you for hosting @Andrew65!

kwmg40 #gottacatchemall @PuddleJumper (prompt 80, Cursola: Transformation)
#52bookclub24 (prompt 46, Featuring Indigenous culture)

@Kristy_K, @LaraReads, @KarenUK, @Hooked_on_books, @BarkingMadRead, @Crazeedi, @brittanyreads, @Magpiegem, @BookBelle84, @Larkken, @jenniferw88, @julesG, @Deblovestoread, @MidnightBookGirl, @Librarybelle, @triplem80, @Tove_Reads, @Read4life, @Bluebird, @BarbaraBB, @eeclayton, @hissingpotatoes, @Book_Lover95, @TheAromaofBooks 10mo

Librarybelle On my to read list! 10mo

Hooked_on_books I found this one fascinating! 10mo

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Kristy_K Sounds interesting! Just added to my tbr. 10mo

Crazeedi This was a great book 10mo

Crazeedi @Librarybelle you will like!! 10mo

kwmg40 @Hooked_on_books @Crazeedi I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds all these details of everyday life hundreds of years ago fascinating! 10mo

kwmg40 @Librarybelle @Kristy_K I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did! 10mo

Crazeedi @kwmg40 have you read this book, it's fascinating, and I think there is another one I haven't read yet

1491: New Revelations Of The Americas Before Columbus

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kwmg40 @Crazeedi Thanks for the recommendation! I see that my library has copies and I've added it to my wishlist. 10mo

Crazeedi @kwmg40 I think you will like 10mo

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Teresereading

In Search of Hobart | Peter Timms

In Christopher Koch‘s ‘The Boys in the Island‘, Hobart is described as ‘a city, but only just‘.

#firstlinefridays
@ShyBookOwl
#bookclub #bookclubtonight

DocBrown 😂😂😂 I like Hobart! It‘s nice! 11mo

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