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City Builder is a comprehensive, fully-illustrated 240-page book that is organized into 15 sections and includes:

* More than 100 pieces of custom art that have been executed in a similar style and selected with an eye toward giving the book a unified look.

* A Preface by co-author Michael O. Varhola that talks about the development of City Builder and the role that D&D creator Gary Gygax played in it.

* An Introduction that describes the scope of the book and how to use the material it contains.

* A section that examines communities of all sizes, from smaller ones like thorps, hamlets, and villages to larger ones like towns and cities, along with special-purpose settlements like military bases, plantations, and communes. Topics within this chapter include regional and racial influences; characteristics of towns and cities, to include buildings, availability of goods and services, law and order, adventuring on, above, and below city streets, urban lighting, and community defenseworks; and disasters like flood, fire, war, and pestilence.

* Chapters devoted to 10 specific kinds of locations, including Craftsman Places, Entertainment Places, Professional Places, Tradesman Places, Mercantile Places, Service Places, Scholarly Places, Religious Places, Governmental Places, and Underworld Places.

* Descriptions of 85 different sorts of places.

* Two or three Adventure Hooks tying in with each described sort of place.

* An appendix on Guilds that discusses organization and regulations and includes tables for randomly generating such institutions.

* An appendix on creating Inns and Taverns.