A face in the crowd
Marshall Berman, the celebrated political philosopher and urbanist, died ten years ago this month. His deep commitment to a Marxist humanism, a 'Marxism with soul', has much still to teach us.
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Posts tagged: urbanism
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Returning to London I
Much has changed in London the past 60 years but the extreme inequality at display in the streets remains. Patrick Joyce strolls through his old home city.
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Things that do not go bang in the night
AbdouMaliq Simone offers some reflections on Keller Easterling’s Medium Design and wonders how we might rethink the process of design - urban, social, political - from within the middle of things.
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The Non-Sexist City
Leslie Kern asks how we can create a feminist city and what tools women can use to support each other.
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Care Work in the Time of COVID-19
Leslie Kern discusses the care work and feminized labor that keeps cities running, asking: once the global pandemic subsides, will care work be forced back into obscurity, or will we work to re-organize our cities in ways that support, value, and redistribute care more equitably?
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How cities drive climate change
The stark inequality of "extreme cities" is going to be exacerbated and tested by the effects of climate change.
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Michael Sorkin, 1948-2020
Mike Davis pays tribute to architect and critic Michael Sorkin, who has died aged 71 of complications caused by Covid-19.
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Michael Sorkin: 250 Things an Architect Should Know
An excerpt from What Comes Up: The Right and Wrongs to the City.
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What is urban planning’s role in the maintenance of capitalism?
In his new book Capital City, Sam Stein describes how one of the tasks of urban planners is to make capitalist development appear to be in the rational best interests of workers and bosses alike.
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Architecture and Cities: A Verso Bookshelf
Key reading on our cities and the geography of inequality, politics, and identity.
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Real Estate Greed Caused the Deadly Bronx Fire
New York City and the real estate interests that run it decided long ago that working class lives are worth gambling with.
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Zoöpolis
Jennifer Wolch conceptualizes an urban theory that takes nonhumans seriously.
