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What inspires the Shape of Cities to Come ecosystem? Here’s a curated selection of media that has shaped our peers’ perspectives, thinking, and work!
MEDIA TYPE
NAME
AUTOR / CREATOR
A
All about love
Bell hooks
Book
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
Book
American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass
Douglas Massey
Book
Art as Experience
James Dewey
Book
The Assassination of New York
Robert Fitch
Book
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
Book
The Autobiography of Malcolm
Malcolm X with Alex Haley
Book
B
Basic Call to Consciousness
Chief Oren Lyons, John Mohawk, and José Barreiro
Book
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Cedric J. Robinson
Book
Blues People
Amiri Baraka
Book
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
Book
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Book
C
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State
Sam Stein
Book
Citizen 13660
Miné Okubo
Book
City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States
Ira Katznelson
Book
Corregidora
Gayl Jones
Book
D
Diarios de Motocicleta
Ernesto Che Guevara
Book
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
Book
Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America
Lisa Dodson
Book
E
Emergent Strategy
adrienne maree brown
Book
F
Favelas Cariocas: Ontem e Hoje
Marco Antonio da Silva Mello, Luiz Antonio Machado da Silva, Leticia de Luna Freire, and Soraya Silveira Simões
Book
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
Book
G
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination
Sarah Schulman
Book
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World
Lewis Hyde
Book
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Book
Growing Up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children’s Everyday Lives
Cindi Katz
Book
H
Harun Farocki: Against What? Against Whom?
Ehmann and Kodwo Eshun
Book
I
In The Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
Book
Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino
Book
Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island
Judy Yung
Book
J
K
L
The Lottery of Birth
Namit Arora
Book
M
Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Brooklyn's Sunset Park
Tarry Hum
Book
Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown
Book
Migrating To Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Book
Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of New York City
Paul Stoller
Book
Mutant Liberalism
William Callison and Zachary Manfredi
Book
N
The Need for Roots
Simone Weil
Book
The New Chinatown
Peter Kwong
Book
O
On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place
Lucy Lippard
Book
Open Veins of Latin America
Eduardo Galeano
Book
P
Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler
Book
Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City
Kevin Loughton
Book
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire
Book
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Book
Planning the Capitalist City
Richard Foglesong
Book
Poetics of Relation
Edouard Glissant
Book
Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
Book
Poverty
America by Matthew Desmond
Book
The Power Broker
Robert Caro
Book
The Privatization of Everything
Donald Cohen
Book
Q
The Quiet Before
Gal Beckerman
Book
R
The Rebel
Albert Camus
Book
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
David Harvey
Book
Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
Silvia Federici
Book
Revolutionary Suicide
Huey P. Newton
Book
Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It
Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Book
S
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern
J. Sakai
Book
Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese
Byung Chul-Han
Book
The Shock Doctrine
Naomi Klein
Book
Sidewalk
Mitchell Duneier
Book
Statement of Necessity
Ernesto Oroza
Book
Sublime Object of Ideology
Slavoj Zizek
Book
T
Teaching to Transgress
bell hooks
Book
This Bridge Called My Back
Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Book
Through the Eyes of Rebel Women: The Young Lords 1969-1976
Iris Morales
Book
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
Samuel R. Delany
Book
Transgender Warriors
Leslie Feinberg
Book
U
Uses of Disorder
Richard Sennet
Book
V
The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States
Craig Willse
Book
W
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman
Book
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba
Book
Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
Book
X
Y
Z
Zoned Out! Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City
Thomas Angotti and Sylvia Morse
Book
Other Readings and Publications
“How Can We Win?”
Kimberly Jones
“Silence That Kills”
Jorge Ramos
"Making Private Property: Enclosure, Common Right and the Work of Hedges"
Nicholas Blomley
“The Site of Memory”
Toni Morrison
Bridge Magazine
the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
Teaching Community Technology Handbook
"The narcissistic dynamics of submission: The attraction of the powerless to authoritarian leaders" and other articles
Jay Frankel Ph.D.
The Great Law of Peace
Lots of great journalism
The Intercept, and Revista Piaui
Micah Sifry's “The Connector” newsletter about democracy and organizing
Putting the Public Interest in Front of Technology Stanford Social Innovation Review
Media
Break And Enter / Rompiendo Puertas (aka Squatters)
Newsreel
Films and Shows
Do the Right Thing
Spike Lee
Films and Shows
Fantastic Planet
Films and Shows
The Harder They Come Perry Henzell
Films and Shows
The Hunger Games
Films and Shows
Malcolm X
Spike Lee
Films and Shows
"New Order"
Michel Franco
Films and Shows
"The Night Watchman"
Natalia Almada
Films and Shows
Paris is Burning
Films and Shows
Pompoko
Films and Shows
The Queen
Films and Shows
Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa
Films and Shows
Wall-E
Films and Shows
A Grin Without a Cat
Chris Marker
Documentaries
“A Question of Choice”
the Sheffield Film Co-op
Documentaries
Battle of Algiers
Gillo Pontecorvo
Documentaries
Exterminate All the Brutes
Raoul Peck
Documentaries
Fambul Tok
Documentaries
From Here
Christina Antonakos-Wallace
Documentaries
Hearts and Minds
Peter Davis
Documentaries
“In Jackson Heights”
Frederick Wiseman
Documentaries
Killer of Sheep
Charles Burnett
Documentaries
King in the Wilderness
Documentaries
My Brooklyn
Kelly Anderson
Documentaries
The Stroll
Documentaries
Strong Island
Yance Ford
Documentaries
Trouble The Water
Tia Lessin and Carl Deal
Documentaries
"Twenty Years Later"
Eduardo Coutinho
Documentaries
Interviews with Grace Lee Boggs and Winona LaDuke
Interviews
The Pittsburgh Cycle
August Wilson
Plays and Performances
Many many queer artists & performers & drag queens & downtown legends
Plays and Performances
Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series
Paintings and Exhibitions
"Two Meetings and a Funeral," 2-channel installation
Naeem Mohaiemen
Paintings and Exhibitions
Photographs
Robert Frank and Susan Meiselas
Photography
Executive Order 9066 (California Historical Society)
Photography
The Round Table
Podcasts