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Geography

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
24 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

23 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