Aesthetics and Cities

Hi all! I have an urbanist books club and I read a lot of books about Urbanism – the study of cities and how people relate to them.

I recently listened to Radio Free Urbanism's podcast about architecture and how we relate to cities and I'm thinking that it would be an important topic to cover in my book club. When I look up books on the topic, most of them are academic texts (and therefore expensive). Anyone read anything interesting about beautiful architecture and how it relates to our relationship with cities?