What to Read After The City in History
Readers who loved The City in History by Lewis Mumford keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The City in History 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 The City in History
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Image of the City
A Pattern Language
City of Quartz
The Geography of nowhere
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
The Economy of Cities
Suburban Nation
Dancing in the Streets
Edge City
City
The Works
Walkable City
Cities and the Wealth of Nations
Great Streets
The Rise of the West
Nature's Metropolis
Wrestling with Moses
Home
The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York
Triumph of the City
Cities
Flesh and Stone
City