potential book list

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
Consensus Organizing: Building Communities by Mike Eichler
Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Liberation and Well-Being by Geoffrey Nelson and Isaac Prilleltensky (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
From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Asking and Listening: Ethnography As Personal Adaptation
They and We: Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States by Peter Rose
Privilege Power and Difference by Allan Johnson
New York Stories by Edith Wharton
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
authors: Studs Terkel, Richard Sennett, Howard Zinn
urban fiction
cyberpunk?
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Winter’s Tale by Mark Helperin
Factotum by Charles Bukowski
Urban Wilds: Gardener's Stories Of The Struggle For Land And Justice
Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
American Psycho by Bret Easton Elis
Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City by Billy Sothern
City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America by Laura J. Lawson
The Living City (I couldn’t find a link for this one.)
Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival by Paul Grogan
Screening the City by Mark Shiel
Soul of the City: The Pike Place Public Market
A Companion to the City by Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
Spectacular City: Photographing the Future by Steven Jacobs
Photographing People: At Home and Around the World
Margaret Burke White: The Photography of Design
Silver Cities: Photographing American Urbanization, 1839-1939 by Peter Bacon Hales
Kyoto: Seven Paths to the Heart of the City by Diane Durston
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett
Future City: Experiment and Utopia in Architecture
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch
Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space by Margaret Kohn
City Life by Donald Barthelme