Crisis Cities Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/pbseries/crisis-cities/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Crisis Cities Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/pbseries/crisis-cities/ 32 32 Are We in Denial about Denial? https://www.publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial/ Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:00:12 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40073 Across the political spectrum, people deny how bad the state of the world is. No wonder the far right’s lies have such purchase.

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]]> Emergency Urbanism https://www.publicbooks.org/emergency-urbanism/ Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:00:42 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39563 Housing-justice movements ask: How can unhoused people be considered trespassers on state-owned land?

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]]> The Violence of Urban Vacancy https://www.publicbooks.org/the-violence-of-urban-vacancy/ Tue, 24 Nov 2020 16:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39778 Houses without people, people without homes: New York has invested in empty storefronts and empty districts, even as most New Yorkers suffer.

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]]> Fast Food, Precarious Workers https://www.publicbooks.org/fast-food-precarious-workers/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:00:48 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39731 Today—as in 1968—it remains to be seen if McDonald’s pivot toward racial justice will mean anything for how it treats its scores of Black workers.

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]]> Can the Crowd Speak? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-the-crowd-speak/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39918 Occupy Wall Street’s great achievement was to briefly create a community that prefigured a robust democratic culture.

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]]> The Enduring Disposability of Latinx Workers https://www.publicbooks.org/the-enduring-disposability-of-latinx-workers/ Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39551 When employers fail to provide PPE, testing, sick pay, or job protection, the message is clear: Latinx laborers are “not us.”

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]]> How to Defund the Police https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-defund-the-police/ Fri, 20 Nov 2020 16:00:12 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39855 The inconvenient truth of police history in the United States is that police departments were not designed to keep a generic public safe.

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]]> To Heal the Body, Heal the Body Politic https://www.publicbooks.org/to-heal-the-body-heal-the-body-politic/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39582 Before 2020, the relationship that is the body was already ailing. COVID-19 heightens the need to heal it.

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]]> The Vulnerable Foundations of India’s Urbanism https://www.publicbooks.org/the-vulnerable-foundations-of-indias-urbanism/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:00:11 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39867 In Delhi—a city of 17 million people—7.2 million residents already qualified for food aid before the pandemic. After, the numbers skyrocketed.

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]]> The Limits of Telecommuting https://www.publicbooks.org/the-limits-of-telecommuting/ Wed, 18 Nov 2020 16:00:48 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=39540 Perhaps the lesson to take from this year of living online is not about making better technology. It’s about recognizing technology’s limits.

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