Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
By: Leslie Kern
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How Gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it What does gentrification l…
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1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By: Jane Jacobs
4.30
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arroganc… read more
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- urban studies
- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- cities
- sociology
"We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Traffic congestion is caused by vehicles, not by people in themselves."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
"When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away."-Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
2. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
By: David Graeber
3.61
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we come to… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
3. How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
By: P.E. Moskowitz
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The term gentrificationhas become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across … read more
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4. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
By: David Harvey
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
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5. Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
By: Jeff Speck
4.43
Format: 250 pages, Hardcover
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it d… read more
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6. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
7. Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A Memoir in Verse
By: Brontez Purnell
4.16
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"This book is brutal and brutally honest, but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is… read more
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8. Health Communism
By: Beatrice Adler-Bolton
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Pane… read more
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- nonfiction
9. Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
By: Sophie Lewis
3.70
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
What if everyone was family? We need to talk about the family. For those who are lucky, families… read more
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- sociology
10. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
11. The End of Policing
By: Alex S. Vitale
4.19
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing
12. Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993
By: Sarah Schulman
4.52
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive politica… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Soleil amer
By: Lilia Hassaine
4.15
Format: 169 pages, Paperback
A la fin des années 50, dans la région des Aurès en Algérie, Naja élève seule ses trois filles depu… read more
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14. Radical Intimacy
By: Sophie K. Rosa
4.23
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
An impassioned discussion about the alternative ways to form relationships and resist capitalism. … read more
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15. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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- urban planning
- nonfiction
- urbanism
- sociology
16. Un féminisme décolonial
By: Françoise Vergès
4.35
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Pourquoi le terme « féministe » est-il librement approprié à la fois par l’extrême droite, la gauch… read more
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17. Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
By: Leslie Kern
3.85
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
How Gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it What does gentrification l… read more
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- urbanism
- cities
- urban design
- womens
- sociology
18. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
By: Jane Ward
4.16
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Re… read more
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- womens
- nonfiction
- sociology
19. The Tenant Class
By: Ricardo Tranjan
4.28
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In this trailblazing manifesto, political economist Ricardo Tranjan places tenants and landlords on… read more
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- urbanism
- sociology
20. Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
By: Justin Farrell
3.69
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation Billionaire Wilde… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"This scholarly shortfall did not happen by chance. Part of it has to do with particular discomforts characteristics of left-leaning academic social scientists. Conducting high-quality ethnographic or…"-Justin Farrell, Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West
21. Love and Money, Sex and Death
By: McKenzie Wark
4.16
Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition
A transgender woman reflects on her late transition and coming out, trans politics and culture, mot… read more
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