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Cities Made Differently
ISBN: 9780262549332
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 6, 2024
Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.
Digital Ethology
Human Behavior in Geospatial Context
ISBN: 9780262548137
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 30, 2024
An edited collection that looks deeply at how humans transform their environments and how these environments, in turn, shape humans.
Barbarian Architecture
Thorstein Veblen's Chicago
ISBN: 9780262547413
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen's classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s.
Lifelines of Our Society
A Global History of Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546386
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.
Remaking the American Dream
The Informal and Formal Transformation of Single-Family Housing Cities
ISBN: 9780262544764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 20, 2022
The redefinition of the single-family house, the urban landscape, and the American Dream.
Just Urban Design
The Struggle for a Public City
ISBN: 9780262544276
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities.
The Great Easter
Ambulation
ISBN: 9780262047081
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
A hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur wanders the streets of Paris over the long Easter weekend of 1960.
World's End
ISBN: 9781913380007
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: March 29, 2022
A memoir and cultural history of World's End, a West London area once home to bohemian artists and punk rock and now an outpost of neoliberalism.
Natura Urbana
Ecological Constellations in Urban Space
ISBN: 9780262046282
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 8, 2022
A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.
Cities Made Differently
ISBN: 9780262549332
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 6, 2024
Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.
Digital Ethology
Human Behavior in Geospatial Context
ISBN: 9780262548137
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: July 30, 2024
An edited collection that looks deeply at how humans transform their environments and how these environments, in turn, shape humans.
Barbarian Architecture
Thorstein Veblen's Chicago
ISBN: 9780262547413
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: April 2, 2024
A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen's classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s.
Lifelines of Our Society
A Global History of Infrastructure
ISBN: 9780262546386
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 1, 2023
A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives.
Remaking the American Dream
The Informal and Formal Transformation of Single-Family Housing Cities
ISBN: 9780262544764
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: December 20, 2022
The redefinition of the single-family house, the urban landscape, and the American Dream.
Just Urban Design
The Struggle for a Public City
ISBN: 9780262544276
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: November 22, 2022
Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities.
The Great Easter
Ambulation
ISBN: 9780262047081
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
A hallucinating, insomniac, and increasingly fragile flaneur wanders the streets of Paris over the long Easter weekend of 1960.
World's End
ISBN: 9781913380007
Publisher: Goldsmiths Press
Pub Date: March 29, 2022
A memoir and cultural history of World's End, a West London area once home to bohemian artists and punk rock and now an outpost of neoliberalism.
Natura Urbana
Ecological Constellations in Urban Space
ISBN: 9780262046282
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: March 8, 2022
A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.