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        Humane Infrastructures

        Humane Infrastructures

        Humane Infrastructures

        by Patrik Svensson

        ISBN: 9780262542128

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 29, 2025

        How we can work together to understand, imagine, and build humane infrastructures and a better world.
        The Urban Naturalist

        The Urban Naturalist

        The Urban Naturalist

        How to Make the City Your Scientific Playground

        by Menno Schilthuizen

        Illustrated by Jono Nussbaum

        ISBN: 9780262049092

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 1, 2025

        A manifesto—and a field guide—for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.
        Measures and Meanings of Spatial Capital

        Measures and Meanings of Spatial Capital

        Measures and Meanings of Spatial Capital

        Contributions to a Theory of Land

        by Lars Marcus

        ISBN: 9780262551304

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 25, 2025

        How the built environment, understood as spatial capital, governs both everyday life in cities and urban systems more generally.
        The Pointillistic City

        The Pointillistic City

        The Pointillistic City

        How Microspatial Inequities Affect Well-Being in Our Communities, and What We Can Do about It

        by Daniel T. O'Brien

        ISBN: 9780262550802

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 21, 2025

        A new paradigm of research, policy, and practice that acknowledges the multiple scales at which we live every day.
        Cities Made Differently

        Cities Made Differently

        Cities Made Differently

        by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky

        ISBN: 9780262549332

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: November 19, 2024

        Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.
        The Cities We Need

        The Cities We Need

        The Cities We Need

        Essential Stories of Everyday Places

        by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

        ISBN: 9780262049030

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 27, 2024

        An expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging.
        Digital Ethology

        Digital Ethology

        Digital Ethology

        Human Behavior in Geospatial Context

        Edited by Tomáš Paus and Hye-Chung Kum

        ISBN: 9780262548137

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: July 9, 2024

        An edited collection that looks deeply at how humans transform their environments and how these environments, in turn, shape humans.
        Natura Urbana

        Natura Urbana

        Natura Urbana

        Ecological Constellations in Urban Space

        by Matthew Gandy

        ISBN: 9780262551335

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 16, 2024

        A study of urban nature that draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought.
        Barbarian Architecture

        Barbarian Architecture

        Barbarian Architecture

        Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago

        by Joanna Merwood-Salisbury

        ISBN: 9780262547413

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: April 2, 2024

        A richly visual architectural history and theory of modernity that reexamines Thorstein Veblen's classic text The Theory of the Leisure Class through the lens of Chicago in the 1890s.
        Artless

        Artless

        Artless

        Stories 2019–2023

        by Natasha Stagg

        ISBN: 9781635901900

        Publisher: Semiotext(e)

        Pub Date: October 24, 2023

        A document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness.
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