BOOKSTHAT / LIST NO. 4478
Cities, streets, housing, transit, zoning, and the built environment as a thing to argue about lovingly.
ART & DESIGN
POLITICS & SOCIETY
LIFE & COMMUNITY
Cover unavailablePe Moskowitz
“How to Kill a City elucidates the complex interplay between the forces we control and those that control us.”
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“Desmond has set a new standard for reporting on poverty.”
Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times Book ReviewReview excerpt
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“Just Action is just the book we need right now.”
Nicholas Lemann, staff writer at The New Yorker and former dean of the Columbia School of JournalismPublished endorsement
Cover unavailableGaston Bachelard, Maria Jolas
Bachelard makes rooms, corners, and everyday shelters feel newly significant, exploring how imagination turns inhabited space into a world of meaning.
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Cover unavailableDavid Graeber, Nika Dubrovsky
David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky combine drawings, anthropology, history, and imaginative prompts to explore how cities have developed and might be organized differently.
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