What to Read After Cities and the wealth of nations
Readers who loved Cities and the wealth of nations by Jane Jacobs keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Cities and the wealth of nations is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Cities and the wealth of nations
Great streets
The economy of cities
Wrestling with Moses
City
Naked city
Cities of tomorrow
The smart growth manual
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
The High Cost of Free Parking
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1990
The new industrial state
The city in history
The nature of economies
Dark age ahead
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy
Getting to maybe
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Triumph of the City
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded
The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York
The Signal and the Noise
Why Nations Fail
Collapse
Notes from a small island