Feminist City: A Field Guide
Feminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living justly in an urban world n nWe live in the city of men Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies There is little consideration for women as mothers, workers or carers The urban streets often are
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago s most turbulent neighborhoods n nThe numbers are staggering over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gu
The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir
A memoir of self discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a ci
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
What does it mean to be lonely How do we live, if we re not intimately engaged with another human being How do we connect with other people Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens n nWhen Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid thirties, she found herself inhabitin
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
Award winning journalist Sam Anderson s long awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny n nOklahoma City was born from chaos It was founded in a bizarre but momentous Land Run in 1889, when thousands of people l
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
n A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisis n n nSpacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an e
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our fractured society We are living in a time of deep divisions Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn t seen
The Municipalists
A novel about an unlikely pair of lonely outsiders one human, one AI on an adventure to save the great American city of Metropolis written by one of the most exciting new voices in fiction Charles Yu n n Named one of the best books of the month by n Library Journal n Debut of the Month , n
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America
A New York Times Best Seller Searing Dispatches from the Urban Zones Where African American Men Have Become an Endangered SpeciesTo many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in going beyond race, putting the divisions of the past behind us And then seventeen year old Trayvon Martin was shot