Our Club TBR

~ Design and the Environment ~

• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters by Robert Muir-Wood

• Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources by M. Kat Anderson

• Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez, PhD.

• As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dino Gilio-Whitaker

• Non-Extractive Architecture: On Designing without Depletion by Space Caviar

• Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility by Dorceta Taylor

~ Classism and Housing ~

• Who’s Next? Homelessness, Architecture, and Cities by many contributers

• Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland Ohio by Daniel R. Kerr

• Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes: A Perspective on the Protests and Upheavals in Our Cities Edited by Nnamdi Elleh

• Urban Warfare: Housing Under the Empire of Finance by Raquel Rolnik

~ Patriarchal Design and Feminist Design ~

• Feminist City: A Field Guide by Leslie Kern

• Space, Place, and Gender By Doreen Massey

• Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture Edited by Hilde Heynen and Gulsum Baydar

• Architecture and Feminism Edited by Debra Coleman, Elizabeth Danze, Carol Henderson

• Stud: Architectures of Masculinity by Joel Sanders

• Transgender Architectonics: The Shape of Change in Modernist Space by Lucas Crawford

• Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space Edited by Doina Petrescu

~ Queer Spaces ~

• Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City by Dianne Chisholm

• Planning and LGBTQ Communities: The Need for Inclusive Queer Space by Petra L. Doan

• Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender by Clare Hemmings

~ Asian Planning / Arch History (Not just East Asia) ~

• Asian Ethical Urbanism: A Radical Postmodern Perspective by William Siew Wai Lim

• Building Community, Chinatown Style: A Half Century of Leadership in San Fransisco Chinatown by Gordon Chin

~ Latinx Planning / Arch History ~

• Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk

• Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary by Ronald Rael

~ Black Planning / Arch History ~

• Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity by Mario Gooden

• Hip-Hop Architecture by Sekou Cooke

• The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection by Anne Berry, Kareem Collie, Penina Laker, Lesley-Ann Noel, Jennifer Rittner, + Kelly Walters

• The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race by Adrienne Brown

• Black Landscapes Matter Edited by Walter Hood + Grace Mitchel Tada

• The Aesthetics of Equity: Notes on Race, Space, Architecture, and Music by Craig L. Wilkins

• In Search of African American Space: Redressing Racism Edited by Jeffrey Hogrefe, Scott Ruff, Carrie Eastman, Ashley Simone

• Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America by Charles L. Davis II, Mabel O. Wilson, Emanuel Admassu, Germane Barnes, Adrienne Brown, and Sekou Cooke

• Building Character: The Racial Politics of Modern Architectural Style (Culture Politics & the Built Environment) by Charles L. Davis II

~ Disabled Planning / Arch History ~

• Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability by Aimi Hamraie

• Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design by Bess Williamson

• What Can a Body Do?: How We Meet the Built World by Sarah Hendren

• Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

• The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access by David Gissen

• Disability, Space, Architecture: A Reader edited by Jos Boys

• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

~ Native Planning / Arch History ~

• Spiral to the Stars: Myskoke Tools of Futurity by Laura Harjo

• Reclaiming Indigenous Planning Edited by Ryan Walker, Ted Jojola, David Natcher

• The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture by Elizabeth Grant, Kelly Greenop, Albert Refiti, Daniel Glenn

~ Land Back / Decolonizing Design ~

• Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West by David Hugill, Robert Henry, Julie Tomiak, Tyler McCreary, Heather Dorries

• Spaces Between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization by Scott L. Morgensen

• Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of National Parks by Mard Davis Spence

• There's Something in The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities by Indrid R.G. Waldron

• Manual of Decolonization by SALOTTOBUONO

~ The Designer as Worker ~

• Architecture and Labor by Peggy Dreamer

• The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design by Peggy Dreamer

• A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis

• Diversity Among Architects: From Margin to Center by Craig L. Wilkins

• Architecture Depends by Jeremy Till

~ Design and Capitalism ~

• Junkspace / Running Room by Hal Foster, Rem Koolhaas

• The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture within and against Capitalism by Pier Vittorio Aureli

• The Design of Scarcity by Goodbun, Klein, Rumpfhuber & Till

• Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning by Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago

• Design for The Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek

• Design, When Everyone Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation by Exio Manzini, Rachel Coad

• Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present by Peggy Dreamer

• The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance by Douglas Spencer

• Icebergs, Zombies, and the Ultra Thin: Architecture and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century by Matthew Soules

• Architecture's Evil Empire? The Triumph and Tragedy of Global Modernism by Miles Glendinning

• Architecture and Utopia and Capitalist Development by Manfredo Tafuri

~ Gentrification ~

• Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein

• The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

• Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies by Leslie Kern

• How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for The Neighborhood by Peter Moskowitz

~ Redlining and Real Estate ~

• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

• Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

• Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America by Beryl Satter

~ Tactical Urbanism ~

• Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action for Long-Term Change by Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia

• Temporary and Tactical Urbanism: (Re)assembling Urban Space by Kim Dovey and Quentin Stevens

• Transformative Planning: Radical Alternatives to Neoliberal Urbanism Edited by Tom Angotti

• The Informal American City: From Taco Trucks to Day Labor Edited by Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Vinit Mukhija

• The Revolutionary Urbanism of Street Farm: Eco-Anarchism, Architecture, and Alternative Technology in the 1970s by Stephen E. Hunt

~ Misc. ~

• Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock

• Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds by Arturo Escobar

• Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

• A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture by Rafi Segal

• Architecture and Violence Edited by Bechir Kenzari

• Living on Campus: An Architectural History of the American Dormitory by Carla Yanni