Urban/City

Are you a sucker for politically and economically complex situations? What about compelling battles for equality? If you…

As cities and suburbs sprawl, and conservation efforts enable wildlife populations to recover, we are beginning to see a…

This is the book that predicted the 1992 LA riots. Mike Davis gives us a full bore analysis of Los Angeles culture,…

In this timely and inventive collection of essays, editors Mary N. Taylor and Noah Brehmer bring together writings from…

A guide to individual and community-scale composting in small urban spaces, with fun DIY projects, illustrations, and…

P-22, the famed “Hollywood Cougar,” was born in a national park near Los Angeles, California. When it was time for…

This immense collection comes from Lydia Davis, the so-called “magician of self-consciousness,” “best prose…

Fruit trees don't just grow in orchards. All over the world, fruit often grows in heavily urban areas, but the trees can…

Drawing on the events during and following Hurricane Harvey, this moving examination of the Houston community observes…

Almost anytime large corporations are thriving, the middle class of America is shrinking, along with its diverse small…

In this book, discover fifty simple suggestions from author Ophelie Damblé to add some greenery to your environment,…

Ah, the mall. A commercial and social space iconic to American culture, the mall and its fall loom over the…

There's no cooking like home-cooking and there's no guidebook like the one you write yourself. This Moleskine notebook…

The poster celebrates the history of NYC's anti-gentrification movements, fighting for tenant power and housing as a…

This is a celebration of the lifestyles driven and led by pedal power, illustrations of them by New York Times comic…

Drawing on more than a century's worth of quantitative and qualitative data, Segregation By Design brings into sharp…

During the years that Janette Sadik-Khan was New York City’s transportation commissioner, the city's public spaces…

In This City is Killing Me, social worker and therapist Jonathan Foiles delves into how community trauma in Chicago is…

Street art isn't just something you walk by—it's a whole medium that gets you feeling and thinking. Featuring…

A celebration of urban trees and the Americans—presidents, plant explorers, visionaries, citizen activists,…