- All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
- Banned Books
Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Banning Cars from Manhattan
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1961
By banning private cars and reducing traffic, we can, in most areas, close off nearly nine out of ten cross-town streets and every second north-south avenue. These closed roads plus the space now used for off-street parking will give us a handsome fund of land for neighborhood relocation. At present over 35 percent of the area of Manhattan is occupied by roads.
- The City and Radical Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
- Communitas
Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1960
Visions of urban life.
- Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Document accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 2011.
- Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
This document was accepted by the NYC General Assembly on September 29, 201.
- The Economy of Cities
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Ideas about what makes cities rich or poor, how cities grow, and how city growth affects national economies.
- The Empire City
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The Hidden Rivers of Brooklyn
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A look at the extensive drainage and sewer system under the streets of Brooklyn, NY. When pipes fill up and plants reach capacity, untreated water containg sewage flows into local rivers and bays. However a bold green infrastructure initiative hopes to reduce such overflows by 3.8 billion gallons a year.
- Home!
A Bioregional Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
- ‘It Was a Remarkably Successful Grassroots Campaign to Target Amazon’s Credibility’
CounterSpin interview with Neil deMause on Amazon's retreat from New York
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Transcript of interview with Neil deMause about NY's bid for Amazon HQ. Included downloadable MP3 of interview.
- Liberal Dreams and Nature's Limits
Great Cities of North America Since 1600
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
An exploration of city life through time, focusing on the life [economically, socially, politically, etc.] of five large North American cities at various times in the past - Philadelphia during the time of Benjamin Franklin (1760), New York in the mid nineteenth-century (1860), Chicago at the beginning of the Progressivist Civic Movements (1910), Los Angeles during the immediate Post-war boom (1950) and Toronto at the beginning of its own ascendancy in the 1970's. (1975).
- Police Terror in the Big Apple
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Scott exposes the realities of police brutality and the character of organized opposition in New York City.
- The Radical Camera
New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Artists in 'the Photo League', active from 1936 to 1951, were known for capturing sharply revealing, compelling moments from everyday life.
- Rats
A Year with New York's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
An engrossing account of a year spent hanging out in a Manhattan alley.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- Some Assembly Required
Witnessing the birth of Occupy Wall Street
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Nathan Schneider describes his experiences inside the early days of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
- The Story of English
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Swimming in Shit
Against the Current
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Why is it the case that in a city that is almost entirely built on islands – a city literally surrounded by water – are there so few places to swim and cool off?
- The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Resource Type: Website
The Tamiment Library contains some of the most important collections in the United States relating to labor and social history [labor collections], the history of the Left, the place of the worker in American society, the evolution of labor law, women's history, immigrant history, and much more.
- An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
- The Young Lords' Legacy of Puerto Rican Activism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
A short history of the Young Lords, a group that used confrontational tactics to bring services and attention to the residents of East Harlem, or El Barrio, and beyond.
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