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On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: …
On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El …
Absolutely phenomenal. Pure moral clarity. A necessary read to understand the current moment in imperialism and hear a sane, sober take.
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover …
This is a book that challenges the reader and pushes the boundaries of what a book can be. I'll be thinking about it for a long time.
This is a book that challenges the reader and pushes the boundaries of what a book can be. I'll be thinking about it for a long time.
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …
I highly recommend this book to anarchists or libertarian leftists in general. It beautifully builds and explores a functioning anarchist society, and some of the dysfunction that could exist in such a society. It also has some great classic SciFi world building.
If bookwyrm allowed it I'd give a 4.5. The only flaw is a somewhat rushed feeling ending. Doesn't take away from the rest of the book tho.
I highly recommend this book to anarchists or libertarian leftists in general. It beautifully builds and explores a functioning anarchist society, and some of the dysfunction that could exist in such a society. It also has some great classic SciFi world building.
If bookwyrm allowed it I'd give a 4.5. The only flaw is a somewhat rushed feeling ending. Doesn't take away from the rest of the book tho.
Told through one of the most on-pulse genre voices of our generation--New York Times bestselling …
Each of these stories is a not-so-subtle reference to real political issues and undercurrents right now, which I think is important to note. You won't find escapism here. But you will find a lot of food for thought in a digestible format, and that's what I really appreciated.
Each of these stories is a not-so-subtle reference to real political issues and undercurrents right now, which I think is important to note. You won't find escapism here. But you will find a lot of food for thought in a digestible format, and that's what I really appreciated.
I'm actually updating my rating, which was a 4/5 originally. I still think about and reference this book regularly, so I think it deserves that 5.
The tenth anniversary of this book is a must. The original is good, but it lacks any analysis of race. The tenth anniversary filled in a lot of these gaps, as well as reckoning with societal and tech changes since original publication.
To date this is the single most informative and comprehensive urbanist book I know, while still being very easy to read. It's not perfect, but it's the best place to start.
I'm actually updating my rating, which was a 4/5 originally. I still think about and reference this book regularly, so I think it deserves that 5.
The tenth anniversary of this book is a must. The original is good, but it lacks any analysis of race. The tenth anniversary filled in a lot of these gaps, as well as reckoning with societal and tech changes since original publication.
To date this is the single most informative and comprehensive urbanist book I know, while still being very easy to read. It's not perfect, but it's the best place to start.
Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we bowled in leagues, usually after work; but …
Twenty years, ago, Robert D. Putnam made a seemingly simple observation: once we bowled in …
Read for urbanist book club. I did not fully finish this. It's a classic work for a reason. But it suffers from the fact that better written, more interesting, and up to date works have built on the topic. This book did everything right in its era, but it's just aged.
Read for urbanist book club. I did not fully finish this. It's a classic work for a reason. But it suffers from the fact that better written, more interesting, and up to date works have built on the topic. This book did everything right in its era, but it's just aged.
Read last year for Urbanist book club. Book has some good and interesting points about the complexity of fixing the urban canopy in disinvested/redlines neighborhoods. There's a strange current throughout where the author, a white woman, talks about the importance of listening to minority communities while almost entirely focusing only on her own perspective.
Read last year for Urbanist book club. Book has some good and interesting points about the complexity of fixing the urban canopy in disinvested/redlines neighborhoods. There's a strange current throughout where the author, a white woman, talks about the importance of listening to minority communities while almost entirely focusing only on her own perspective.
Written in a lively, accessible fashion and drawing extensively on interviews with people who were …
Just started reading this for the July #STLUrbanists book club. Really excited for this analysis, because I think it addresses an interesting contradiction in car culture - how cars have been simultaneously liberating to minorities and yet another vector for policing and indebting people.
In the future, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the galaxy …
A short read about space exploration in search of other life forms. Some interesting thoughts about ethical science, and some imaginative world building. But overall it's a bit thin and ends in an unsatisfying way that feels a little forced.
A short read about space exploration in search of other life forms. Some interesting thoughts about ethical science, and some imaginative world building. But overall it's a bit thin and ends in an unsatisfying way that feels a little forced.
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover …
actually started a couple months ago. Halfway through.
Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the …
Unfinished. Not because of any issue with the book but because for me, as someone who has read a dozen or so urbanist books, it's a little bit of a retread, and I just found myself gravitating elsewhere.
Unfinished. Not because of any issue with the book but because for me, as someone who has read a dozen or so urbanist books, it's a little bit of a retread, and I just found myself gravitating elsewhere.
