Five best books about cities

Pete Hamill, the former editor of the New York Post and Daily News, is the author of, most recently, the novel North River.For the Wall Street Journal, he named a five best list of books about cities. Number One on his list:Gothamby Edwin G. Burrows and Mike WallaceOxford, 1999Every great city is a palimpsest, an old text upon which new texts are inscribed before the old text is completely