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architect, verb.: The New Language of Building

by Reinier De Graaf

The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that foster a sense of place and well being

2 posts
Claiming the City: A Global History of Workers’ Fight for Municipal Socialism

by Shelton Stromquist

How workers fought for municipal socialism to make cities around the globe livable and democratic—and what the lessons are for today

1 post
The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting

by Alexander Vasudevan

Updated new edition: A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city

12 posts
Henri Lefebvre and the Theory of the Production of Space

by Christian Schmid

Henri Lefebvre was the major theorist of space and of the urban. This is the definitive book on Lefebvre

2 posts

Paris in Turmoil

by Eric Hazan

A kaleidoscopic look at Paris’s ever-changing forms and people
Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past

by Robert Bevan

Chosen as one of the best Architecture and Design books of 2022 by The Financial Times and one of the top art books of 2022 by The Art Newspaper

5 posts
Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

by Leslie Kern

How Gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it

4 posts
Last Futures

by Douglas Murphy

Whatever happened to the last utopian dreams of the city?

15 posts

Designing Disorder

by Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennett

A radical and transformative manifesto for twenty-first-century cities

7 posts
Ecology of Fear

by Mike Davis

A new edition of this classic book on Los Angeles

4 posts
The Uses of Disorder

by Richard Sennett

Reissue of the classic text on how cities should be planned

2 posts
Uncomputable

by Alexander Galloway

A journey through the uncomputable remains of computer history

4 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

3 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

5 posts
Savage Messiah

by Laura Grace Ford

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

8 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

25 posts

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