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Architecture & Cities

Savage Messiah

by Laura Grace Ford

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

3 posts
Urban Warfare: Housing Under the Empire of Finance

by Raquel Rolnik

How finance and politics have caused the global housing crisis

1 post
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

5 posts
Extreme Cities

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

18 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

20 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?

6 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
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?

17 posts

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