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Shawn Micallef, Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness (2017)

On Archinect: Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (Reyner Banham, 1971)

Jonathan Raban, Soft City (1974)

In the New Yorker: Becoming Los Angeles (D.J. Waldie, 2021)

Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) (2008)

In the MIT Technology Review: three books on Los Angeles

Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects (1961)

In the Los Angeles Review of Books: Pop City (Youjeong Oh, 2021)

Sam Anderson, Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis (2018)

Jan Morris, Hong Kong (1988/1997)

In the Los Angeles Review of Books: Hotels of Pyongyang (James Scullin and Nicole Reed, 2020)

Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design (2020)

Mark Kingwell, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and the City (2008)

Lawrence Osborne, Paris Dreambook: An Unconventional Guide to the Splendor and Squalor of the City (1990)

Michael Sorkin, All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities (2011)

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