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Tim Cocks, Lagos: Supernatural City (2022)
Can a non-Nigerian, much less an Englishman, hope to understand the "impossibility-ism" of Africa's star megacity?
Feb 21
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Tim Cocks, Lagos: Supernatural City (2022)
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January 2024
Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community…
The sociologist who popularized the idea of the "third place" finds what's gone missing from American life
Jan 27
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Ray Oldenburg, The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons, and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community (1989)
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December 2023
Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (2023)
Why a pricey suburban college town is the dark heart of the American empire
Dec 31, 2023
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Malcolm Harris, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World (2023)
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October 2023
David Maraniss, Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story (2015)
Writers tend to obsess over Detroit's decline, but David Maraniss focuses instead on the city's last glory days in the early 1960s, the time of Motown…
Oct 9, 2023
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David Maraniss, Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story (2015)
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September 2023
Georges Perec, Lieux (2022)
In 1969, Georges Perec launched himself into a twelve-year-long project to describe twelve meaningful places in Paris — a project that went unseen by…
Sep 2, 2023
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Georges Perec, Lieux (2022)
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June 2023
Kate Ascher, The Works: Anatomy of a City (2005)
A New York City insider's lavishly illustrated explanation of her city's urban infrastructure, in both its might and its decrepitude
Jun 27, 2023
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Kate Ascher, The Works: Anatomy of a City (2005)
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March 2023
Robert Fouser, Exploring Cities with Robert Fouser (로버트 파우저의 도시 탐구기) (2019)
An American linguist-urbanist remembers the cities he's known, from Ann Arbor to Tokyo to Dublin to Seoul — and does so entirely in Korean
Mar 15, 2023
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Robert Fouser, Exploring Cities with Robert Fouser (로버트 파우저의 도시 탐구기) (2019)
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December 2022
Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (1991)
Postwar developments like Irvine or Tysons Corner may be ambitious, but will they ever develop proper urban civilization? Three decades ago, one…
Dec 31, 2022
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Joel Garreau, Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (1991)
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September 2022
M. Nolan Gray, Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (2022)
An extremely online city planner makes the case against an institution wrongly assumed to be necessary
Sep 17, 2022
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M. Nolan Gray, Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It (2022)
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August 2022
Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990)
Does Mike Davis' grim but celebrated assessment of power, violence, and globalization in Los Angeles hold up three decades later?
Aug 18, 2022
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Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990)
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July 2022
Juan Villoro, Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico (2021)
The temptations of a sinking, brown-aired, mismanaged, inescapably stimulating metropolis
Jul 2, 2022
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Juan Villoro, Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico (2021)
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May 2022
Witold Rybczynski, City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995)
Why doesn't North America have a London or Paris? An architect-critic explains
May 2, 2022
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Witold Rybczynski, City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995)
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