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• Paris (Taschen 25th Anniversary Edition)

  Andreas Krase

  
  Features photos of Paris' parks, buildings, streets, store windows, prostitutes, workers, and door handles.
  
   

• The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Urban studies & biography)

  Robert A. Caro

  
  
   

• A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

  Owen Hatherley

  
  
   

• Triumph of the City

  Edward Glaeser

  
  
   

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

  Edward Glaeser

  
  
   

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Vintage)

  Jane Jacobs

  
  
   

• Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism

  Stephen Graham

  
  
   

• Underground London: Travels Beneath the City Streets

  Stephen Smith

  
  An illuminating glimpse into the hidden world beneath our feet.
  
   

• City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age

  P. D. Smith

  
  
   

• Access All Areas: A User's Guide to the Art of Urban Exploration

  Ninjalicious

  
  
   

• Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity

  Marc Auge

  
  
   

• Ground Control: Fear and happiness in the twenty-first-century city

  Anna Minton

  
  
   

• Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined

  Aaron Peckham

  
  An all new collection of the hottest and funniest words on urbandictionaryXXXX, the web site where millions of people from all over the world contribute their slang words and definitions.
  
   

• The Human Zoo

  Desmond Morris

  
  This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.
  
   

• Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-imagined Places

  Edward W. Soja

  
  This work shows the complex of interactions between the individual and the state, the public and the private, and the manner of their expression in the human environment. It is both an exploration and a critique of the new politics of culture as expressed in the capitalist cities of the West.
  
   

• Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy

  Ross Perlin

  
  
   

• Clouds Of Glory: A Childhood in Hoxton: A Hoxton Childhood

  Bryan Magee

  
  Hoxton today is one of the most fashionable parts of inner London, yet within living memory it was the capital's most notorious slum area. In this work, Bryan Magee recalls the vanished world of his childhood living in Hoxton and brings it to life again in all its drama and surprise.
  
   

• City of Quartz

  Mike Davis

  
  
   

• Land of Strangers

  Ash Amin

  
  
   

• The Man Who Drew London: Wenceslaus Hollar in Reality and Imagination

  Gillian Tindall

  
  This volume is about how London was perceived by Wenceslaus Hollar, the artist/engraver who drew London before and after the Great Fire of 1666. It is because of his panoramas that we know what Old St Paul's was like, before it was completely destroyed and subsequently rebuilt by Wren.