Lonely Planet s first follow-up to best-selling The Travel Book is a full-colour pictorial celebrating the microcosms of human achievement that are cities. The 200 most interesting, attractive, liveable and challenging cities in the world are ranked in order as voted for by the experts - Lonely Planet s staff, authors, and readers. The list is as diverse as the people that created it - of course there are the usual suspects: Paris, London, New York - but also the unfamiliar, the exotic, and the tiny - Abuja (Nigeria), Nuuk (Greenland), St-Denis (Réunion) and Ulaanbataar (Mongolia). Taking our cue from the buzz on the street, The Cities Book captures the individual flavour of each city through the eyes of the typical citizen: in dazzling, edgy images, hot conversation topics, urban myths, the best places to eat and drink and to seek out after dark. Also included are an introduction on the evolution of the city past, present and future, and an appendix of ten cities that didn t make the cut, chosen by Tony Wheeler.