The City: the Index

Citizen Politics

• Edens Lost and Found,  Harry Wiland, Dale Bell,  Joseph D'Agnes'

City as Community

• The Small-Mart Revolution,  Michael Schuman
• The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and the Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community, Ray Oldenburg
• Bowling Alone: the Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam

Commerce

• Pedal to the Metal: The Work Lives of Truckers, Lawrence Ouelett
• Ninety Percent Of Everything:  Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate, Rose George
• The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller  and the World Economy Bigger , Marc Levinson 
• Call of the Mall, Paco Underhill

Development

• Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, Robert Fogelson
• Living Downtown: The History of Residential Hotels, Paul Growth
• Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, Kenneth Jackson
• Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time,  Jeff Speck
• Home From Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century, James H. Kunstler
• Thoughts on Building Strong Towns, Vol I, Chuck Marohn
• The Green Metropolis:  Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability, David Owen
• Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck
• The Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler
• Big Box Swindle, Stacy Mitchell

Law Enforcement 

• Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces, Radley Balko
• The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop, Steve Osborn

Social Problems

• Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets, Sudhir Venkatesh
• Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor, Sudhir Venkatesh
• Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, Barbara  Ehrenreich

Transportation

• Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, Peter Norton
• Straphanger: Saving Our Cities from the Automobile, Taras Gresco
• Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists are Changing American Cities,  Jeff Mapes
• Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, Jane Holtz Keay
• Waiting on a Train: the Embattled Future of Passenger Rail, James McCommons
• Taxi! A Social History of the NYC Cab Driver, Graham Russell Gao Hodges
• Getting There: The Epic Battle Between Road and Rail in the American Century,  Stephen Goddard
• Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, Tom Vanderbilt
• Divided Highways: Building the Interstates, Transforming American Life. Tom Lewis
• The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure, Henry Petroski

Urban Economics:

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs

Utilities

• The Grid: A Journey Through the Heart of Our Electrified World, Phillip Schewe
• Oil on the Brain, Lisa Magonelli
• On the Grid: A Plot of Land, an Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work, Scott Huler
• Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Urban Landscape,  Brian Hayes

Waste Management

• Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City,  Robin Nagle
• Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash, Elizabeth Royte
• Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers
• Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization, W. Hodding Carter
• Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash, Susan Strasser

The City Historic

• Horses at Work: Powering the Industrial Economy, Ann Norton Greene
• The Horse in the City, Clay McShane, Joel Tarr
• The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, James Howard Kunstler
• The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage