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GalleryBook Review: Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side by Nandini Bagchee
In Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side, Nandini Bagchee shifts our focus from the public spaces of New […]
GalleryBook Review: The Sage Handbook of the 21st Century City edited by Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett
In The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City, Suzanne Hall and Ricky Burdett bring together contributors to explore […]
GalleryBook Review: Social Ecology in the Digital Age: Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World by Daniel Stokols
In Social Ecology in the Digital Age: Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World, Daniel Stokols offers a comprehensive account of social […]
GalleryBook Review: The Quito Papers and The New Urban Agenda by UN-Habitat, Richard Sennett with Ricky Burdett and Saskia Sassen, in dialogue with Joan Clos
Emerging out of UN Habitat III, The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda, authored by Richard Sennett, Ricky […]
GalleryBook Review: Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing by John Boughton
In Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing, John Boughton offers a compelling and grounded biography of council […]
GalleryBook Review: Handbook of Gentrification Studies edited by Loretta Lees with Martin Phillips
In the Handbook of Gentrification Studies, Loretta Lees with Martin Phillips bring together contributors to explore different types of gentrification […]
GalleryBook Review: Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste by Diane Coffey and Dean Spears
In Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste, authors Diane Coffey and Dean Spears propose that […]
GalleryBook Review: The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche and the New Capitals of Asia by Natalie Koch
In The Geopolitics of Spectacle: Space, Synecdoche and the New Capitals of Asia, Natalie Koch critically explores the ‘spectacular urbanism’ that […]
GalleryBook Review: Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless by Robert Rosenberger
In Callous Objects: Designs Against the Homeless, Robert Rosenberger explores the growth of ‘hostile architecture’ and reflects on what it suggests […]
GalleryBook Review: Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey by Begüm Adalet
In Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey, Begüm Adalet offers an account of the […]
GalleryBook Review: Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump by Kathleen M. Millar
In Reclaiming the Discarded: Life and Labor on Rio’s Garbage Dump, Kathleen M. Millar offers a new ethnographic study of Jardim Gramacho, […]
GalleryBook Review: Governing Compact Cities: How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport by Philipp Rode
In Governing Compact Cities: How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport, Philipp Rode looks at the integration of urban planning, city […]
GalleryBook Review: Industrial Teesside, Lives and Legacies: A Post-Industrial Geography by Jonathan Warren
In the final decades of the twentieth century, Teesside has experienced precipitous industrial decline, mass unemployment and environmental decay. […]
GalleryBook Review: Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary Space by Debra Benita Shaw
In Posthuman Urbanism: Mapping Bodies in Contemporary Space, Debra Benita Shaw examines the disciplinary control and classification built into the […]
GalleryBook Review: Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy by Richard E. Ocejo
In Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy, Richard E. Ocejo explores four traditionally working-class jobs – […]
