Week 8: Knowing the City

• Certeau, Michael de. “Walking in the City.” In The Practice of Everyday Life, translated by Steven F. Rendall, 2nd ed., 91–110. University of California Press, 2002.

• Lefebvre, Henri. “The Plan of the Book (Excerpt).”In The Production of Space, 1st ed., 1–16. Wiley-Blackwell, 1992.

• hooks, bell. “Choosing the Margin as a Radical Space of Openness.”In Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2014.

• Soja, Edward, and Barbara Hooper. “The Space That Difference Makes.”In Place and the Politics of Identity. London ; Routledge, 1993. 

Of the Following, read as you like (but do read at least one. These are very accessible and beautifully written. Two of them are fairly short

• Kern, Leslie. “City of Moms.” In Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World, 22–54.Verso Books, 2020.

• Mutongi, Kenda. “Through a Car Window in a Nairobi Traffic Jam, a View of Global Economics.”Washington Post, October 11, 2023, sec. Opinions.

• Riha, John. “How I Battle Wildfire Anxiety.” Slate, September 18, 2023.