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Alpha City

by Rowland Atkinson

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of us
Modernism in the Streets

by Marshall Berman

Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinker

7 posts
Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving

by John Chase
A free-wheeling guided tour to the cityscape of Southern California, grounding architecture as a multidisciplinary art.
Building the Commune

by George Ciccariello-Maher
Latin America’s experiments in direct democracy
25 posts

Buda’s Wagon

by Mike Davis
The brilliant and disturbing 100-year history of the “poor man’s air force,” the ubiquitous weapon of urban mass destruction
13 posts
Late Victorian Holocausts

by Mike Davis
A magisterial melding of global ecological and political history, disclosing the nineteenth-century roots of underdevelopment in what became the Third World
14 posts
Planet of Slums

by Mike Davis
The classic, brilliant, best-selling account of the rise of the world’s slums, where, according to the United Nations, one billion people now live
25 posts
Extrastatecraft

by Keller Easterling
“An extraordinary guidebook to the politics of infrastructure in the contemporary world.” —Stephen Graham, author of Cities Under Siege
22 posts

The Limits to Capital

by David Harvey

A major rereading of Marx’s critique of political economy

25 posts
Violent Borders

by Reece Jones

A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed

49 posts
The View from the Train

by Patrick Keiller

Essays by the iconic British filmmaker on the relationship between film, cities and landscape

18 posts
The History of Forgetting

by Norman M. Klein

Analysis, photography and fiction combine in a bracing portrait of LA.

1 post

Radical Cities

by Justin McGuirk

“An intriguing picture of an activist urbanism and architecture that has made a real difference.” – Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times

24 posts
A Civilian Occupation

Edited by Rafi Segal, David Tartakover, et al.
Israeli architects, scholars, journalists, and photographers highlight the role of architecture in the Middle East conflict.
4 posts
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes

by Mimi Sheller

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day

6 posts
Uneven Development

by Neil Smith

Groundbreaking theory of uneven geographical development.

3 posts

Postmodern Geographies

by Edward W. Soja
“One of the most challenging and stimulating books ever written.”—David Harvey
4 posts
The Right to the City

Edited by Verso Books

Special eBook collection on the most urgent question of our times: who is the city for?

6 posts
Hollow Land

by Eyal Weizman

Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupation

19 posts