What to Read After Nature's Metropolis
Readers who loved Nature's Metropolis by William Cronon keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Nature's Metropolis 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 Nature's Metropolis
Origins of the Urban Crisis
The Legacy of Conquest
City of Quartz
Ecological Imperialism
Homeward Bound
Rivers of Empire
Railroaded
City of the Century
Organic Machine
Land of Desire
Chicago
Twenty Years at Hull-House
Roll, Jordan, Roll
The City in History
Race and Reunion
The Age of Reform
The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York
Uncommon Ground
Changes in the Land
Reconstruction
The radicalism of the American Revolution
The great Arizona orphan abduction
The Machine in the Garden
Virgin Land