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Brainjuice: a reading list ✪

Being an irregularly updated list of resources on urbanism, urban publics, networked society, and cityhacking. This is a reading list of things to explore, rather than a bibliography (at least right now).

Lots of brainjuice to be squeezed from Adam Greenfield’s preliminary bibliography for The City is Here for You to Use, with which this list currently has an enormous amount of overlap.

• Augé, Marc. Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity.
• BAVO, eds. Urban Politics Now: Re-Imagining Democracy in the Neo-Liberal City.
• Bishop, Bill. The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart.
• Canetti, Elias. Crowds and Power.
• Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.
• Davis, Mike, and David Bertrand Monk, eds. Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism.
• El-Khoury, Rodolphe, and Edward Robbins. Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design. (particularly chapter 12)
• Gehl, Jan. Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space.
• Graham, Stephen. Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism.
• Hammett, Jerilou, and Kingsley Hammett, eds. The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World’s Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town?
• Haydn, Florian, and Robert Temel, eds. Temporary Urban Spaces: Concepts for the Use of City Spaces.
• Katz, James E. Magic in the Air: Mobile Communication and the Transformation of Social Life.
• Koolhaas, Rem, et al. Mutations.
• Ling, Rich, and Scott Campbell, eds. The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices.
• Lynch, Kevin. The Image of the City.
• Raban, Jonathan. Soft City.
• Read, Stephen, et al, eds. Future City.
• Varnelis, Kazys, ed. Networked Publics.
• Whyte, William H. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.
• Zukin, Sharon. Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places.