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Urban Warfare: Housing Under the Empire of Finance

by Raquel Rolnik

How finance and politics have caused the global housing crisis
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

3 posts
Extreme Cities

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

18 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.

2 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

5 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

16 posts
Municipal Dreams

by John Boughton

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

5 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

2 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

19 posts
Verso 2017 Mixtape

by Verso Books

FREE ebook collection of extracts from our top books of 2017

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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

The Least of All Possible Evils

by Eyal Weizman

Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention

16 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

19 posts
The Autonomous City

by Alexander Vasudevan

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

9 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
Extrastatecraft

by Keller Easterling
“An extraordinary guidebook to the politics of infrastructure in the contemporary world.” —Stephen Graham, author of Cities Under Siege
23 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

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