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Feminist City

by Leslie Kern

Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world

7 posts
Designing Disorder

by Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennett

A manifesto for the Open City: vibrant, disordered, adaptable

4 posts
Savage Messiah

by Laura Grace Ford

The acclaimed art fanzine’s psychogeographic drifts through a ruined city

9 posts
Urban Warfare: Housing Under the Empire of Finance

by Raquel Rolnik

How finance and politics have caused the global housing crisis

7 posts

Capital City

by Samuel Stein

“This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn’t be more timely or urgent.” —Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map

20 posts
Extreme Cities

A cutting exploration of how cities drive climate change while being on the frontlines of the coming climate crisis

25 posts
Hollow City

by Rebecca Solnit

Hollow City surveys San Francisco’s transformation—skyrocketing residential and commercial rents that are driving out artists, activists, nonprofit organizations and the poor; the homogenization of the city’s architecture, industries and population; the decay of its public life; and the erasure of its sites of civic memory.

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

7 posts

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

by Mike Davis

A fiercely elegant and wide-ranging history of L.A.’s Dickensian extremes and Pynchonesque conspiracies

18 posts
Vertical

by Stephen Graham

A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet

16 posts
What Goes Up

by Michael Sorkin

A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary city

4 posts
The Zad and NoTAV

by Mauvaise Troupe Collective and Kristin Ross

Vivid account and reflection on two struggles that are at the heart of the contestation of neoliberal technocracy and the state

19 posts

Verso 2017 Mixtape

by Verso Books

FREE ebook collection of extracts from our top books of 2017
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?

7 posts
The Least of All Possible Evils

by Eyal Weizman

Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention

18 posts
The City

by Tony Norfield

Radical insider’s account of how the city of London really works

13 posts

Hollow Land

by Eyal Weizman

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

21 posts
The Autonomous City

by Alexander Vasudevan

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city

10 posts
Cities of Power

by Göran Therborn

Why are cities centres of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics

5 posts
Modernism in the Streets

by Marshall Berman

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

7 posts

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