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Sasha Costanza-Chock • Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need (Information Policy)
We live in a time where, in the words of social theorist Roberto Unger, we are governed by people who ‘confuse conformism with realism’.6
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
From the beginning the balance between civilization and nature has been essential to meeting both our spiritual and practical needs.
Jonathan F. P. Rose • The Well-Tempered City: What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life
of the American experiment.
Sabrina Strings • Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
In modern Asia, the mainstream obsession with pursuing the goal of controlling and manipulating nature has not provided us with too many helpful examples of efforts to realize alternative goals.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Douglas Thomas • From Community to Collective: Institution and Agency in the Age of Social Networks
Most alarmingly, the turn to neo-liberal globalization over the last several decades has devastated the planetary environment.
Prasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
an avowed partisan of the underclass, the marginalized, the poor.
Moyra Davey • Index Cards
The goal of this book is to knit these threads—our technical and social potential and the generative power of nature—back together, toward a higher purpose for cities.