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Colin Marshall's Books on Cities

Colin Marshall

Colin Marshall's essay-reviews of books, new and old, about cities the world over

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The Lives (and Deaths) of Berlin

Berlin, one often hears, is not Germany. Since only four or five percent of the country’s population lives there, that makes a kind of sense. But Berlin also happens to be Germany’s largest city by a fairly wide margin: the second-largest,...

18 days ago
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What else I've been reading in April 2026

This is one in a series of monthly posts that round up the (mostly non-city-related) books and essays that also figure into my reading life.

Chris Arnade, author of the popular travel and culture Substack Chris Arnade Walks the World, inte...

19 days ago
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What else I've been reading in March 2026

This is one in a series of monthly posts that round up the (mostly non-city-related) books and essays that also figure into my reading life.

Colin Marshall's Books on Cities is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and suppo...

2 months ago
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Bruce Bégout, Los Angeles, capitale du XXe siècle (2019)

Can the European mind comprehend Southern California's vast "non-entité urbanoïde"?

On the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, one genre of occasionally viral post involves images or videos of American phenomena that “the Euro...

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What else I've been reading (and writing) in February 2026

This is one in a series of monthly posts that will round up the (mostly non-city-related) books and essays that also figure into my reading life.

First, here’s my own essay on new books about David Bowie (Paul Morley’s Far Above the World:...

3 months ago
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