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author of The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America - out now! subscribe to https://t.co/3q9O1iMcEj

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Book Cover for: The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent, James Howard Kunstler

The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent

James Howard Kunstler
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I wrote about the reactionary turn kf author James Howard Kunstler (Geography of Nowhere, The Long Emergency) and what we can learn from it. https://t.co/m9yLPEoz0a

Paperback, 2006

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America, David A. Banks

The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

David A. Banks
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We got a cover folks! This will be how you judge The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America out in the Spring from @ucpress https://t.co/txLpgW6USa

Paperback, 2023

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places, Sharon Zukin

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

Sharon Zukin
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@kingnegritude @AngeleChristin Sarah Banet-Weiser's Authentic™ was really useful to me, as was Sharon Zukin's Naked City but the latter doesn't talk about social media directly.

Paperback, 2011

$32.99$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America, David A. Banks

The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

David A. Banks
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Today is launch day for my book! The City Authentic is about why cities all look and feel the same brought on by cities’ attempts to sell a predictably unique urban experience. On my Substack now is the intro that got cut: https://t.co/Y6UCtTnKWD

Hardcover, 2023

$95.00$70.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Vol 4: Library Journal, Anonymous

Vol 4: Library Journal

Anonymous
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Strange review here from ⁦@LibraryJournal⁩ - I don’t suggest the city authentic process works. Quite the opposite! The last two chapters describe in detail why it doesn’t. Which they seem to have read since they quote (and misspell) my suggestion that we *dispense* with it https://t.co/DIWOJtRfIz

Paperback, 2021

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Declineof America's Man-Made Landscape, James Howard Kunstler

Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Declineof America's Man-Made Landscape

James Howard Kunstler
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I wrote about the reactionary turn kf author James Howard Kunstler (Geography of Nowhere, The Long Emergency) and what we can learn from it. https://t.co/m9yLPEoz0a

Paperback, 1994

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Urban Warfare: Housing Under the Empire of Finance, Raquel Rolnik

Urban Warfare: Housing Under the Empire of Finance

Raquel Rolnik
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@Greene_DM Yeah we exported it after the fall of the ussr. Urban Warfare by Raquel Rolnik is a good source on that

Hardcover, 2019

$110.00$85.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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