31 Best

Cities Books

1

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

2

Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis

3

In Our Mad and Furious City

4

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

5

Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America

6

Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

7

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

8

Darwin Comes to Town: How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

9

The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir

10

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

11

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

12

City Moon

13

How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City

14

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

15

Noisy Night

16

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

17

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier

18

Invisible Cities

19

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

20

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

21

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

22

The Works: Anatomy of a City

23

The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

24

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

25

London: The Biography

26

A History of Future Cities

27

The Image of the City

28

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

29

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

30

The City & the City