Soft City is the first book written by Jonathan Raban, and published by Hamish Hamilton (UK) and E. P. Dutton & Company (US) in 1974.

Soft City contains essays and personal reflections on urban life, discussing things such as self-expression and gentrification.

Throughout the text, Raban references writers such as Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, Frederick Engels, Robert E. Park, Ralph Ellison, and Plato.

In a retrospective of Soft City, the Museum of Walking described the "soft city" concept as a "mythic city, where illusion, dream, aspiration, and nightmare are all fixed into place...passed through and acted upon by an individual or a collective.

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