~Maria Popova, "Understanding Urbanity: 7 Must-Read Books About Cities"
It's also helpful to remember that we live in a city with its own unique history! The City of Albuquerque website is a great resource for finding out how to get around in town, to register your business, learn housing codes, find volunteer opportunities, view the pollen count, get hold of public records, look up city construction projects and city contracts with vendors, find a job, and read essays about the city history during different periods, such as Territorial.
City Histories
Berlin Now: The City After the Wall by Peter Schneider
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles by Jon Wilkman
St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street by Ada Calhoun
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
Buenos Aires: The Biography of a City by James Gardner
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
Buenos Aires: The Biography of a City by James Gardner
Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation by Anne Sebba
A History of Spirituality in Santa Fe: The City of Holy Faith by Ana Pacheco
The City: A Global History by Joel Kotkin
Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future by Tom Scocca
Dancing With the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro On the Brink by Juliana Barbassa
Genoa, 'La superba': The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower by Nicholas Walton
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle by Francisco Goldman
We're Still Here, Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City by Roberta Brandes Gratz
City Planning & Urbanization
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser
The City: A Global History by Joel Kotkin
Beijing Welcomes You: Unveiling the Capital City of the Future by Tom Scocca
Dancing With the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro On the Brink by Juliana Barbassa
Thrilling Cities by Ian Fleming
Genoa, 'La superba': The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower by Nicholas Walton
The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle by Francisco Goldman
We're Still Here, Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City by Roberta Brandes Gratz
Los Angeles Plays Itself [DVD]
City Planning & Urbanization
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward L. Glaeser
Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next by John D. Kasarda, Greg Lindsay
Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World by Wade Graham
Atlas of Cities edited by Paul Knox
Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution by Jennifer Cockrall-King
A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook
On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work by Scott Huler
Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves From the Automobile by Taras Grescoe
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
Start-Up City: Inspiring Private & Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Fun by Gabe Klein ; with David Vega-Barachowitz
Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World by Catherine Tumber
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure For a New Generation of Cities by Ryan Gravel
City by City: Dispatches From the American Metropolis edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb
On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems That Make Our World Work by Scott Huler
Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves From the Automobile by Taras Grescoe
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
Start-Up City: Inspiring Private & Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Fun by Gabe Klein ; with David Vega-Barachowitz
Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World by Catherine Tumber
Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure For a New Generation of Cities by Ryan Gravel
City by City: Dispatches From the American Metropolis edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb
