Urban Research Library
The Urban Research Library is a physical library, occupying a quiet nook in the space, that is organised by theme. Come by to browse the shelves, read or borrow books, or simply engage in thoughtful discussion. Browse the collection below.
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Architecture
Space Reader: Heterogenous Space in Architecture by Michael Hensel, Christopher Hight, Achim Menges (2009)
The Piglet Years: The lost militancy in Finnish architecture by Roger Connah (2007)
Literature
Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth (2020)
Walk Through Walls: Marina Abramović by Marina Abramović (2016)
Philosophy
Free Will by Mark Balaguer (2014)
Poetry from the Future by Srećko Horvat (2019)
Sensoria: Thinkers for the 21st Century by McKenzie Wark (2020)
Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan (1977)
The Four Horsemen: The Discussion That Sparked An Atheist Revolution by Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Richard Dawkins (2019)
The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit (2017)
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard (1958)
Other
Factfulness by Hans Rosling (2018)
Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists by Julia Ebner (2020)
How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco (2015)
Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism by Julia Watson (2019)
OpenStreetMap: Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World by Frederik Ramm, Jochen Topf, and Steve Chilton (2011)
The Hidden Half: The Unseen Forces That Influence Everything by Michael Blastand (2019)
Economy
Economics for the Many by John McDonnell (2018)
New Tools for Economic Development by George Sternlieb and David Listokin (1981)
Solved: How Other Countries Cracked the World's Biggest Problems by Andrew Wear (2020)
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind by Raghuram Rajan (2019)
History
Capital: New York of the 20th Century by Kenneth Goldsmith (2015)
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jarden Diamond (2005)
Tallinn (Reval): Fortifications in the Middle Ages by Rein Zobel (2014)
The Situationist City by Simon Sadler (1996)
The Story of Art by E.H Gombrich (1950)
Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond (2019)
Proceedings
Built Environment & Information Technologies by Simge Andolsun, Azru Temizsay, and Meltem Uçar (2010)
Data Drift: Archiving Media and Art in the 21st Century by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, and Lev Manovich (2013)
Future City - Combining Disciplines by Juho Rajaniemi (2016)
Joint Space: Open Source on Mobile Positioning and Urban Studies by Kaja Pae, Rein Ahas, and Ular Mark (2006)
Shaping Cities in an Urban Age by London School of Economics and Alfred Herrhausen Gesselschaft (2018)
Science
Bad Data: Why We Measure The Wrong Things and Often Miss The Metrics That Matter by Peter Schryvers (2020)
Inquiry by Design: Environment / Behavior / Neuroscience in Architecture, Interiors, Landscape, and Planning by John Zeisel (1981)
Metadata by Jeffrey Pomeranz (2015)
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock (2019)
Spatial Analysis along Networks by Atsuyuki Okabe and Kokichi Sugihara (2012)
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter (2019)
Media Theory
(Italian) Architecture on the Web: A Critical Approach to Communication by Paolo Schianchi (2014)
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams (2015)
The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore (1964)
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil (2016)
Critical Theory
An Essay on Liberation by Herbert Marcuse (1969)
Critique of Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre (1947)
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism by David Harvey (2014)
The New Spirit of Capitalism by Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello (1999)
Critical Urban Studies
A Walk Through Paris: A Radical Exploration by Eric Hazan (2016)
Access for All: Transportation and Urban Growth by K.H Schaeffer and Elliot Sclar (1975)
Between fulfilment and vitiation - Discerning incapacitation in urban regeneration by Kaisa Schmidt-Thomé (2015)
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern (2019)
(Italian) Junkspace by Rem Koolhaas (2001)
Metaphors in Urban Planning: From Garden City to Zwischenstadt and Netzstadt by Terttu Pakarinen (2010)
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes by Mimi Sheller (2018)
Psychogeography by Merlin Coverley (2006)
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey (2012)
Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-And-Imagined Places by Edward W. Soja (1996)
What Goes Up: The Right and Wrongs to the City by Michael Sorkin (2018)