 | ROAM: A Reader in the Aesthetics of Mobility by Anthony Hoete
Buy used from: $22.50 Narrative acounts arise through movement; understanding the built environment as you move through it.
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 | Concrete Jungle : A Pop Media Investigation of Death and Survival in Urban Ecosystems
Buy used from: $0.43 Urban environment as evolving and deteriorating ecosystem: rats, cats, roaches and postmortem feasting. An edgy pleasure!
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 | The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space
Buy new: $27.20 / Used from: $22.50 A look into the underside of the urban realm; an excellent collection.
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 | The Cybercities Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series) by Stephen Graham
Buy new: $69.95 / Used from: $36.01 ICTs shaping the urban environment in ways we never expected.
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 | Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City by William J. Mitchell
Buy new: $25.60 / Used from: $4.00 Mr. Mitchell provides yet another dose of his computer love; count how many times he uses the word 'smart' in this one.
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 | Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un)Built Environment by Ruth Eaton
Buy used from: $117.43 A nice history of utopian schemes and failed 20th century social engineering.
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 | Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition by Steve Graham
Buy new: $46.76 / Used from: $40.47 Very thorough. Graham and Marvin never cease to amaze. You never look at an overpass or a fibre optic cable the same way again. A masterwork!
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 | Architecture of Fear by Nan, ed. Ellin
Buy used from: $9.98 A very readable collection. Each piece stays true to the theme. Highly recommended.
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 | The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond
Buy used from: $688.18 He worked on New Babylon for 10 years before he conceptualized its own end. Highly influenced the radical architecture groups of the 1960s.
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 | The New Geography: How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape by Joel Kotkin
Buy used from: $3.22 Reads like a big newspaper article, but very eye-opening. I use the word 'Nerdistan' quite often now.
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 | Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J. B. Jackson
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $9.67 J. B. Jackson influenced many. He knew how to see and so can most of these folks. A nice collection of essays for those interested in cultural landscape studies.
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 | The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory (Haymarket Series) by Norman M. Klein
Buy used from: $3.72 Klein is one of the best contemporary hypertext thinkers. Pulls from film theory quite often. His DVD project is amazing.
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 | Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St) by Professor James C. Scott
Buy new: $15.12 / Used from: $10.46 Books contains nice bits on Brasilia, Soviet collective housing, and the Jane Jacobs/Le Corbusier dialectic. One of my all time faves.
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 | Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 by Professor Robert M. Fogelson
Buy new: $21.25 / Used from: $6.94 Fogelson knows his urban history. Want to know about U.S. cities and how they evolved? Get this book.
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 | Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture by Anthony Vidler
Buy new: $16.32 / Used from: $14.79 From Coup Himmelblau to Rachel Whiteread; a great mix.
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 | Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses
Buy new: $27.23 / Used from: $13.00 The problems associated with the constant push to the edge. Some great pieces here. Highly recommended.
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 | Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics (Graham Foundation / MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse) by Rosalyn Deutsche
Buy used from: $137.50 Deutsche's great work. From the uneven development in NYC to the Tilted Arc. Is this out of print?
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 | The Situationist City by Simon Sadler
Buy new: $21.28 / Used from: $18.75 Another one on the Sits; contextualizes their work in the urban realm quite well.
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 | Writings on Cities by Henri Lefebvre
Buy new: $41.61 / Used from: $29.00 Can't discuss urbanism without contemplating everyday life.
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 | Architecture of the Everyday by Steven Harris
Buy new: $19.46 / Used from: $8.63 And more on the everyday....
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 | Architecture and Disjunction by Bernard Tschumi
Buy new: $18.07 / Used from: $13.78 Tschumi's early writings when he explored the activities of Superstudio rather than making bad corporate architecture.
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 | Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies by Reyner Banham
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $7.40 Banham explores LA in the late 60s and finds the freeway experience metaphysical. What would he say now?
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 | The Urban Ideal: Conversations with Paolo Soleri by Paolo Soleri
Buy used from: $3.75 Soleri talks about Arcosanti and his hope for the cities of the future. Sad how few have listened to him.
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 | The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $9.45 Has a wonderful Mike Davis essay about L.A. losing its garden. Excellent collection.
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 | Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government by Professor Evan McKenzie
Buy new: $19.36 / Used from: $3.98 Hopefully this will not be the future of housing in America, but it sure is looking that way. McKenzie writes very well.
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