Whether you love her or you hate her, everyone interested in this topic should make some effort to study Jane Jacobs, and her seminal work, The Death And Life Of Great American Cities:

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Life-Great-American-Cities/dp/067974195X/

Of more recent work, some people described Alex Marshall as "the next Jane Jacobs." His work is relatively short and easy to read, but it is deep and profound, How Cities Work:

https://www.amazon.com/How-Cities-Work-Suburbs-Constructs-ebook/dp/B003QHZ4N2/

Of recent work, Leslie Kern looked specifically at the issue of how women experience cities. I reviewed her book here:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/the-feminist-city-part-1?s=w