I've just finished Gotham by Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace, and I would really like to read more books on the histories of cities. In particular I'm interested in the history of London since 1666, Hong Kong, and Singapore, but I'm open to reading any good urban history out there. I like the way you can see how the broad trends and big issues of the day have a specific impact on a particular place, so any book that captures or explains that would be really great.
Thanks in advance!
Perry Duis' The Saloon: Public Drinking in Chicago and Boston, 1880-1920 is a great example of urban history interwoven with social and political history. He writes as a scholar should, but it's quite clear that he loves his studies, making the book engrossing.
I wrote my undergrad history thesis on urban planning as a tool of the state for social control (and the ways in which that backfires by creating symbols for the populace to rally around). Here's my bibliography as a Google Doc; I suspect you'll find some stuff there.
I focused mainly on DC, Moscow, and Beijing, so that's what the books focus on (note that most of my sources on Moscow are in Russian).
Bear in mind also that this was for undergrad and was written about 10 years ago, so I can't guarantee there aren't more up-to-date sources out there, plus evaluating sources was beyond what I was able to do at the time. Still I tried to mostly use well-known publishers and authors, if nothing else.