23 Of Best Sociology Of Urban Areas Books In 2024

TOP 1

San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

Shellenberger, Michael
Oct 12, 2021

Our Score

4.95
TOP 2

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson
Vintage
Feb 10, 2004

Our Score

4.9
TOP 3

Humans of New York

Stanton, Brandon
St. Martin's Press
Oct 15, 2013

Our Score

4.8
TOP 4

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Caro, Robert A.
Vintage
Jul 12, 1975

Our Score

4.7
TOP 5

Humans of New York

Stanton, Brandon
St. Martin's Press
Oct 13, 2015

Our Score

4.7
TOP 6

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Desmond, Matthew
Crown
Feb 28, 2017

Our Score

4.65
TOP 7

Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood

Oppenheimer, Mark
Oct 5, 2021

Our Score

4.55
TOP 8

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Radtke, Kristen
Pantheon
Jul 13, 2021

Our Score

4.55
TOP 9

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jacobs, Jane
Vintage
Dec 1, 1992

Our Score

4.55
TOP 10

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler

Schroff, Laura
Tresniowski, Alex
Howard Books
Aug 7, 2012

Our Score

4.5
TOP 11

Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption

Schwarzer, Mitchell
Sep 28, 2021

Our Score

4.5
TOP 12

For White Folks Who Teach

Emdin, Christopher
Beacon Press
Jan 3, 2017

Our Score

4.5
TOP 13

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Newitz, Annalee
W. W. Norton & Company
Feb 2, 2021

Our Score

4.5
TOP 14

Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

Kristof, Nicholas D.
WuDunn, Sheryl
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Sep 1, 2020

Our Score

4.4
TOP 15

Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

Baldwin, Rosecrans
MCD
Jun 15, 2021

Our Score

4.4
TOP 16

The Cross and the Switchblade

Wilkerson, David
Sherrill, Elizabeth
Sherrill, John
Berkley
Nov 15, 1986

Our Score

4.4
TOP 17

Seek & Find - Around the World

Juliette Saumante
Emilie Plateau
Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
Jun 20, 2017

Our Score

4.3
TOP 18

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Boo, Katherine
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Apr 8, 2014

Our Score

4.2
TOP 19

Great Cities: The stories behind the world's most fascinating places

DK
Aug 31, 2021

Our Score

4.1
TOP 20

WALKABLE CITY: How Downtown Can Save America

Speck, Jeff
North Point Press
Nov 12, 2013

Our Score

4.1
TOP 21

Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City

Anderson, Sam
Crown
Aug 20, 2019

Our Score

4.1
TOP 22

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

Simon, David
Picador
Aug 22, 2006

Our Score

4
TOP 23

Scale: The Universal Laws of Life

West, Geoffrey
Penguin Books
May 15, 2018

Our Score

4