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The Country and the City. Raymond Williams. United Kingdom: Chatto and Windus & Spokesman Books, 1973.
The Color Of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. Richard Rothstein. Liveright, 2017.
Rebel Cities. David Harvey. United States: Verso Books, 2012.
Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age. Lizabeth Cohen. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2019.
"The Housing Question." Friedrich Engels, marxists.org, 1995 | 1873.
"The Social Ideology of the Motorcar." Andre Gorz, Uneven Earth, 2018 | 1973.
"Social Housing in the United States." Saoirse Gowan and Ryan Cooper. People's Policy Project, 2018.
"What if Citizens Set City Budgets? An Experiment That Captivated the World—Participatory Budgeting—Might Be Abandoned in its Birthplace." Valeria Lvovna Gelman and Daniely Votto. World Resources Institute, June 13, 2018.
"Urban Fish Ponds: Low-tech Sewage Treatment for Towns and Cities." by Aaron Vansintjan. Low← Tech Magazine, March 28, 2021.
"The Right to the City." David Harvey, New Left Review, Sept 2008.
"Building an Ownership Economy Video Series". Ownership Economy, 2015.
We don't agree with some of the assumptions in this series but find some of the ideas around cooperative ownership useful.
"Lewis Mumford on the City". Originally aired in 1963.
"Library Socialism & Usufruct" (1:46:00). Srsly Wrong, June 3, 2019.
"Library Socialism & The Irreducible Minimum" (1:58:23) Srsly Wrong, August 3, 2019.