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Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading

 
 

Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance

by Adonia E. Lugo, Ph.D.

What is intersectional organizing? How do urbanist spaces welcome some voices and not others and why? We have been focusing on this topic since 2016. This book resonated with Laura Loe, Share The Cities founder.

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The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth & Power

by Deirdre Mask

How does class and wealth inequality impact our cities? How does segregation and classist urban planning impact who our neighbors are? We have focused on exclusionary zoning since 2015, and this book looks at the history of addresses. It is an international overview of the topic that touches on colonialism, imperialism, class and race.

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

How are the rights of renters supported in the US? How can we work to build tenant power and strengthen tenant education? Share The Cities has partnered with many tenant rights organizations since 2015 and we want to bring a greater awareness that we must do more. This book highlights the way our cities fail tenants.

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