sorry it took me so long to post this, i had a hectic weekend. i just got back from seeing suheir again at the film festival, it was awesome!
A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki [1]
Consensus Organizing: Building Communities by Mike Eichler [2]
Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-Being by Geoffrey Nelson and Isaac Prilleltensky [3] (I’m not sure if this is the right book, there were a few books called Community Psychology. This one looks good, though. Aaron, maybe you can clarify?)
The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in Americas by Diana Taylor [4]
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman [5]
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond [6]
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond [7]
Asking and Listening: Ethnography As Personal Adaptation [8]
They and We: Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States by Peter Rose [9]
Privilege Power and Difference by Allan Johnson [9]
New York Stories by Edith Wharton [9]
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino [10]
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway [11]
authors: Studs Terkel, Richard Sennett, Howard Zinn
urban fiction
cyberpunk?
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby [12]
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [13]
A Winter’s Tale by Mark Helperin [13]
Factotum by Charles Bukowski [14]
Urban Wilds: Gardener's Stories Of The Struggle For Land And Justice [14]
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang [15]
American Psycho by Bret Easton Elis [15]
Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City by Billy Sothern [15]
City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America by Laura J. Lawson [15]
The Living City (I couldn’t find a link for this one.)
Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival by Paul Grogan [15]
Screening the City by Mark Shiel [15]
Soul of the City: The Pike Place Public Market [15]
A Companion to the City by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson [15]
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis [15]
Spectacular City: Photographing the Future by Steven Jacobs [15]
Photographing People: At Home and Around the World [15]
Margaret Burke White: The Photography of Design [16]
Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939 by Peter Bacon Hales [16]
Kyoto: Seven Paths to the Heart of the City by Diane Durston [16]
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan [16]
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett [16]
Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture [16]
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs [16]
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch [16]
Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space by Margaret Kohn [16]
City Life by Donald Barthelme [16]