Book Reviews
Category
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, by Olivia Laing
Francesca Cocchiara and Nicole de Groot
Is loneliness the price to pay for living in a global city? There is a commonplace about the easiness of feeling isolated in urban environments tha…
Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World, by Leslie Kern
Francesca Cocchiara
The experience of the city cannot be synthesized in absolute terms, yet urbanism and spatial planning have taken men’s needs as the norm, for centu…
Grassroots Rising by Ronnie Cummins
reviewed by Maria Tzika
Grassroots Rising by Ronnie Cummins is a guide for practical solutions for climate change reversal and building grassroots movements. In his own wo…