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John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)

Mumford, Lewis. The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations and Its Prospects. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1961.

Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From

you need to walk a city’s streets to see its soul.

Edward Glaeser • Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

“L.A. is not a city that presents itself to you,” Sam Sweet, a local amateur historian, told me one gray afternoon. “It rewards you to the degree that you’re willing to unlock it. That’s always been the beauty of the city for me.”

Rosecrans Baldwin • Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

To be modern is to experience personal and social life as a maelstrom, to find one’s world and oneself in perpetual disintegration and renewal, trouble and anguish, ambiguity and contradiction: to be part of a universe in which all that is solid melts into air. To be a modernist is to make oneself somehow at home in the maelstrom, to make its rhyth

Reggie James • make some NOISE!!!

Joseph Mitchell both described and conjured the dazzling world of New York when it was really New York — the characters, the grit, the language.

Michael Rosenwald • ‘I wish this guy hadn’t written this book’

There are times when it seems as though not only the future but the present is dark: few recognize what a radically transformed world we live in, one that has been transformed not only by such nightmares as global warming and global capital but by dreams of freedom, of justice, and transformed by things we could not have dreamed of.

Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

This period has been addressed by Franco Berardi, and later by Mark Fisher, as “the slow cancellation of the future.” Referencing Moishe Postone’s 1996 book Time, Labor, and Social Domination and Spencer Leonard’s 2009 essay, “Going it Alone: Christopher Hitchens and the Death of the Left,” Wolfe writes: The ceaseless proliferation of the new now p... See more

Jess Henderson • Dude, where’s my 22nd century? – On the Burnout of Future Images

The process of city administration is invisible to the citizen who sees little evidence of its human components but feels the sharp pain of taxation. With increasingly poor public service, his desires and needs are more insistently expressed. Yet his expressions of need seem to issue into thin air, for government does not appear attentive to his de