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The Uses of Disorder

by Richard Sennett

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be planned
Uncomputable

by Alexander Galloway

A journey through the uncomputable remains of computer history

3 posts
Cities of Power

by Göran Therborn
Why are cities centres of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics
6 posts
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-made World

by Leslie Kern

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

20 posts

Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances

by Owen Hatherley

How to make a fairer, more just city

4 posts
Alpha City

by Rowland Atkinson

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of us

5 posts
Medium Design

by Keller Easterling

Everyone is a designer: making sense of the world

5 posts
Sensoria

by McKenzie Wark

A survey of the key thinkers and ideas that are rebuilding the world in the shadow of the Anthropocene

6 posts

Designing Disorder

by Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennett

Rethinking the open city

6 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

8 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

26 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.

5 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

8 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

21 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

17 posts
What Goes Up

by Michael Sorkin

A radical architect examines the changing fortunes of the contemporary city

5 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

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