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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
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
Building the Commune

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

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
Glitter Stucco & Dumpster Diving

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

by Norman M. Klein

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

1 post
Hollow Land

by Eyal Weizman

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

19 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
Postmodern Geographies

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