Hello there! While we're busy in research & development mode to launch The Consulate in 2016, we thought we'd share some of what we've been reading, watching & listening to. In no particular order, like a messy bookshelf, for anyone as obsessed with cities as we are...
BOOKS
- The Death & Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs)
- Between the World & Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
- The Big Sort (Bill Bishop)
- Cities Are Good For You (Leo Hollis)
- The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)
- A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway)
- Here is New York (E.B. White)
- The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces (William H. Whyte)
- Cities for People (Jan Gehl)
- Origins of the Urban Crisis (Thomas Sugrue)
- The Art of City Making (Charles Landry)
ARTICLES & REPORTS
- Lost in Place (Joe Cortright, City Observatory)
- Less in Common (Joe Cortright, City Observatory)
- Naked Cities (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker)
- Cities and Songs (Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker)
- The Death of Gentrification Guilt (Holly Otterbein, Philadelphia)
- We Must Not Give In To Economic Segregation (Anna Clark, Next City)
- America's Greatest Problem is Concentrated Poverty (Richard Florida, CityLab)
- What's the Matter with San Francisco? (Gabriel Metcalf, CityLab)
- It's Not Just a Party, It's our Life (Larry Blumenfeld, Salon)
- No Such Thing As A City That Has Run Out of Room (Emily Badger, Washington Post)
- My City Was Gone (Or Was It?) (Ada Calhoun, New York Times)
- An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth (Bruce Mau)
- The Just City Essays (NextCity)
- All-In Cities (Policy Link)
AUDIO
- The Problem We All Live With (This American Life)
- Lower 9 + 10 (This American Life)
- The Incredible Rarity of Changing Your Mind (This American Life)
- Cities (RadioLab)
- To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar)
- 22nd Century (Nina Simone)
VIDEO/FILM/TELEVISION
- Show Me a Hero (David Simon, HBO)
- Treme (David Simon, HBO)
- The Wire (David Simon, HBO)
- Do The Right Thing (Spike Lee)
- When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee)
- Urbanized (Gary Hustwit)
- The Cruise (Bennett Miller)
- Mrs. Parker & The Vicious Circle (Alan Rudolph)
- Milk (Gus Van Sant)
- Raisin in the Sun (Daniel Petrie)
- The Black Power Mixtape (Goran Ollsen)
- Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia (Nicholas Wrathall)
- Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul)
- Manhattan - Opening (Woody Allen)
- Louie (Louis CK)
- Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (CNN)
- A Love Letter to a City (Martin Scorsese)
TALKS
- The Ghastly Tragedy of the Suburbs (James Howard Kunstler)
- The Danger of a Single Story (Chimamanda Adichie)
- We Need to Talk About an Injustice (Bryan Stevenson)
- Some People Are More Equal Than Others (David Simon)
- How to Revive a Neighborhood (Theaster Gates)
- Why We Shouldn't Trust Markets With Our Civic Life (Michael Sandel)
- Dare to Disagree (Margaret Heffernan)
- Progress is Not a Zero-Sum Game (Robert Wright)
- Rising Tide (David Simon)
- James Baldwin vs. William F. Buckley
Just a little primer. More to follow...
Have any suggestions for our list? We'd love to hear. Let us know.