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Atlas of Cities by Paul Knox is a large-format nonfiction reference book about urban geography and city form. Written for a general audience, it uses maps, charts, photographs, and infographics to explain how cities develop, differ, and change over time. Rather than treating the city as a single type of place, the book organizes urban life into a taxonomy of forms and functions, showing how physical layout, economic activity, governance, social life, and infrastructure interact. Its central idea is that cities are shaped by underlying functions such as mobility, innovation, decision making, and cultural transformation. The book ranges widely across historical and contemporary examples, from ancient urban centers to industrial cities and global megacities, making it useful both as an introduction to urban studies and as a visual reference on how urbanization works in practice.