Cities are pretty aggressive about building buildings, gets very annoying until you get used to it.
I guess its pretty bad for new players too

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Yeah a double click should bring up the city details.

Yeah, I've mentioned this one a few times. It's really annoying cause what is happening is the first click brings up the city UI, and the second click assumes you want to build the topmost highlighted building from the build list.

I definately agree that double-click should bring up the city details screen.

I strongly recommend that the build list NOT have the top item highlighted so that there is no chance of accidental builds. There are times where it is possible that an auto build covers your only forest tile, thus forever removing your chance of building a lumber mill. Scary.

At the very least, I wouldn't mind an INI file line that lets you choose whether to build the top building, or bring up city details with a double click.  Agreed that it should default to the latter.

Also, please restrict the click-able area of the screen to the actual locations upon which a building may be constructed.