Anthropology books: Architecture and Urban
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HEALTH AND MEDICINE // EDUCATION // ENVIRONMENT
ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN STUDIES // MEDIA // GEOGRAPHY
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY // LITERATURE
SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS // RACE AND ETHNICITY
NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS // GENDER AND SEXUALITY
- Lively Cities Reconfiguring Urban Ecology Maan Barua 2023 Spring
- A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban
- White Burgers, Black Cash Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation Naa Oyo A. Kwate 2023 Spring
- The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community
- Betting on Macau Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution Tim Simpson 2023 Spring
- A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planet
- Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic Charlotte Wrigley 2023 Spring
- Exploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change—thawing permafrost—and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet
- Castoffs of Capital Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh Lamia Karim 2022 Fall
- Dispelling stereotypes about garment workers in the global apparel industry
- The Common Camp Architecture of Power and Resistance in Israel–Palestine Irit Katz 2022 Spring
- Seeing the camp as a persistent political instrument in Israel–Palestine and beyond
- Showroom City Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman 2021 Fall
- A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world
- Plant Life The Entangled Politics of Afforestation Rosetta S. Elkin 2022 Spring
- How afforestation reveals the often-concealed politics between humans and plants
- Justice at Work The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 2022 Spring
- A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities
- On the Rural Economy, Sociology, Geography Henri Lefebvre Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Editors 2022 Spring
- A collection of previously untranslated writings by Henri Lefebvre on rural sociology, situating his research in relation to wider Marxist work
- Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring
- Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization
- Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall
- Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor
- Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall
- A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster
- Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis David Hugill 2021 Fall
- Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis
- Practicing Cooperation Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism Andrew Zitcer 2021 Fall
- A powerful new understanding of cooperation as an antidote to alienation and inequality
- The Global Shelter Imaginary IKEA Humanitarianism and Rightless Relief Daniel Bertrand Monk and Andrew Herscher 2021 Fall
- Examines how the humanitarian order advances a message of moral triumph and care while abandoning the dispossessed
- Savage Mind to Savage Machine Racial Science and Twentieth-Century Design Ginger Nolan 2020 Fall
- An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design
- The End of the Village Planning the Urbanization of Rural China Nick R. Smith 2021 Spring
- How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life
- Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect Romi Crawford, Editor 2021 Spring
- A collaboration of artists and writers commemorates a powerful symbol for social justice and freedom on Chicago’s South Side
- The Migrant’s Paradox Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain Suzanne M. Hall 2021 Spring
- Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how “race” maps onto place across the globe, state, and street
- The Radical Bookstore Counterspace for Social Movements Kimberley Kinder 2021 Spring
- Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve as launching pads for social movements
- Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall
- An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city
- Grounded Perpetual Flight . . . and Then the Pandemic Christopher Schaberg 2021 Spring
- As commercial flight is changing dramatically and its future remains unclear, a look at how we got here
- Chasing World-Class Urbanism Global Policy versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires Jacob Lederman 2020 Fall
- Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers
- Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
- Urbanism without Guarantees The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood Christian M. Anderson 2020 Spring
- A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics
- The Responsive Environment Design, Aesthetics, and the Human in the 1970s Larry D. Busbea 2019 Fall
- How new conceptions of human–environment interaction became central to design theories and practices in the 1970s
- Cyclescapes of the Unequal City Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development John G. Stehlin 2019 Spring
- A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United States
- Everyday Equalities Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston 2019 Fall
- A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in multicultural cities
- Toward a Living Architecture? Complexism and Biology in Generative Design Christina Cogdell 2018 Fall
- A bold and unprecedented look at a cutting-edge movement in architecture