Colin Marshall's Books on Cities

Fifth anniversary sale: one year for $30

A special deal for urban-minded readers everywhere

Sep 20 • 

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Edmund White, The Flâneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris (2001)

What the late examiner of American gay life learned from his expat years

Sep 10 • 

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July 2025

A. J. Liebling, Chicago: The Second City (1952)

When a New Yorker correspondent profiled the postwar "not-quite-metropolis," not every Chicagoan was pleased

Jul 21 • 

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Ferdinand Addis, The Eternal City: A History of Rome (2018)

22 dramatic chapters in the life of a city, and a civilization, you may already be thinking about every day

Jul 6 • 

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May 2025

David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries (2009)

The former Talking Head takes Sebaldian rides through New York, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Buenos Aires, and beyond

May 29 • 

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Henry Grabar, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (2023)

Free parking causes almost everything wrong with American cities

May 14 • 

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April 2025

Harold Brodkey, My Venice (1998)

The would-be "American Proust" reflects on an un-fantastical city

Apr 6 • 

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February 2025

Jorge Almazán + Studiolab, Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City (2022)

Most cities would be better if they were more like Tokyo. So why aren't they?

Feb 27 • 

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Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili (Invisible Cities) (1972)

A classic of imaginative literature doubles as a multifaceted consideration of urban existence

Feb 6 • 

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January 2025

Ross Perlin, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York (2024)

About 700 languages are spoken in New York, some of them at risk of extinction. How many can one linguist work to preserve?

Jan 22 • 

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Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City (2003)

To Western visitors, Istanbul is captivatingly exotic. Can a writer who's lived there all his life see it the same way?

Jan 7 • 

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October 2024

Alex Hannaford, Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City (2024)

How the Texas capital became too expensive, too ambitious, and too hot for its slackers

Oct 22, 2024 • 

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