Books

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  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

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  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

  4 posts

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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

  16 posts

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  Municipal Dreams

  by John Boughton

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

  5 posts

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  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

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  What Goes Up

  by Michael Sorkin

  A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary city

  2 posts

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  A Walk Through Paris

  by Eric Hazan

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

  13 posts

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  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

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  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?

  5 posts

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  Extreme Cities

  by Ashley Dawson

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

  14 posts

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  The Least of All Possible Evils

  by Eyal Weizman

  Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention

  15 posts

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  The City

  by Tony Norfield

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

  13 posts

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  Hollow Land

  by Eyal Weizman

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

  18 posts

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  The Autonomous City

  by Alexander Vasudevan

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

  9 posts

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  Cities of Power

  by Göran Therborn

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

  5 posts

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  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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  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

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  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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  Last Futures

  by Douglas Murphy

  Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city?

  14 posts