Urbanization


Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
The Little House
The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
Megacities: The Politics of Urban Exclusion and Violence in the Global South
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier
The Ghost Map
Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, a New Urban World
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Urbanization And Regional Disparities In Post-revolutionary Iran
The City in Indian History: Urban Demography, Society, and Politics
Breaking Point: The New Big Shifts Putting Canada at Risk
A Strangeness in My Mind
Zeyn Joukhadar
Rent goes up and up and up. The family-owned boedgas keep on closing, replaced by artisanal cupcake shops and overpriced organic grocery stores whose customers hurry past the homeless and the flowers laid on street corners for Black boys shot by the cops. Some people go their whole lives in New York shutting their eyes to the fact that this city was built for the people who took this land from the Lenape.
Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night

George Monbiot
we can probably, as a nation, loose all our birds, and there is an increasing number of people who wouldn’t even notice. as we become more urban, we’re loosing our attachment
George Monbiot, Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

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