At long last, after more than three years of research and travel, A Burglar?s Guide to the City is finally shipping.

It is a book about crime, policing, and the built environment, and how these forces mutually influence one another, from ancient Rome to contemporary Los Angeles, with a specific focus on the spatial peculiarities of breaking and entering.
I?ve already posted about the book at some length here on the blog?with many more posts available under the Burglar?s Guide tag?and there is also a standalone website worth checking out, as well, with links to reviews, book tour information, and some great blurbs.
However, for now, especially if this is the first you?ve heard of it, consider checking out an excerpt from the book over at The New York Times Magazine, an author profile over at the Wall Street Journal, a short segment about burglary and Los Angeles on NPR?s Marketplace, or a great review published in the Los Angeles Times. There, Annalee Newitz writes that, ?Despite its title, Geoff Manaugh?s A Burglar?s Guide to the City won't teach you how to break into houses. It won?t help you outsmart wily cat burglars with ingenious home alarm systems, either. Instead, it explores something a lot weirder and more interesting: Manaugh argues that burglary is built into the fabric of cities and is an inevitable outgrowth of having architecture in the first place.?
Writing for the Barnes & Noble Review, meanwhile, Sarah Weinman?editor of the recent collection Women...