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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

14 posts
Municipal Dreams

by John Boughton

A narrative history of council housing—from slums to the Grenfell Tower
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

14 posts
What Goes Up

by Michael Sorkin

A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary city

A Walk Through Paris

by Eric Hazan

A walker’s guide to Paris, taking us through its past, present and possible futures

7 posts
The Zad and NoTAV

by Mauvaise Troupe Collective

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

17 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?

4 posts

Extreme Cities

by Ashley Dawson

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

10 posts
The Least of All Possible Evils

by Eyal Weizman

Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention

15 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

17 posts

The Autonomous City

by Alexander Vasudevan

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

8 posts
Cities of Power

by Göran Therborn

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

4 posts
Modernism in the Streets

by Marshall Berman

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

7 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

In Defense of Housing

by David Madden and Peter Marcuse

In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?

16 posts
Last Futures

by Douglas Murphy

Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city?

14 posts
A History of the Barricade

by Eric Hazan

How the French invented the barricade, and its symbolic impact on popular protests throughout history

25 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

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