Books About Cities

[Satchmo Distel]

Venice - Pure City by Peter Ackroyd is enjoyable and has an authentic sense of time and place as it goes through the history in a thematic structure.

City of Quartz by Mike Davis, on LA, is a gem.

[ursus arctos]

Robert Hughes' Barcelona is my go to selection for this genre.

[Bored Of Education]

Do we just ignore threads posted in the wrong fora now?

Jerusalem The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore. One of my new favourite writers and this is immense. As with many of my favourite books, I have lent it to someone and constantly feel the need to refer back to it.

[San Bernardhinault]

Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris is wonderful. On Trieste itself, and on its relation to Austria-Hungary and all sorts.

Peter Aykroyd's London - The Biography was very, very long. What I read of it was mostly interesting, but in the end I just couldn't take any more.

[Aitch]

Social Justice and the City by David Harvey, urban geography approached from a Marxist dialectic.

Cities for People by Jan Gehl, an urban planner describing the place you'd like to live and why.