{"product_id":"9780262049030","title":"The Cities We Need","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere would you take someone on a guided tour of your neighborhood? In \u003ci\u003eThe Cities We Need\u003c\/i\u003e, photographer and urbanist Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani introduces us to the complex, political, and eminently personable stories of residents who answered this question in Brooklyn, New York, and Oakland, California. Their universal stories and Bendiner-Viani’s evocative images illuminate what’s at stake in our everyday places—from diners to churches to donut shops. In this culmination of two decades of research and art practice, Bendiner-Viani intertwines the personal, historical, and photographic to present us with \u003ci\u003eplacework\u003c\/i\u003e, the way that unassuming places foster a sense of belonging and, in fact, do the essential work of helping us become communities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this unique book, Bendiner-Viani makes visible how seemingly unimportant places can lay the foundation for a functional interconnected society, so necessary for both public health and social justice. \u003ci\u003eThe Cities We Need\u003c\/i\u003e explores both what we gain in these spaces and what we risk losing as they are threatened by gentrification, large-scale development, and most recently the COVID-19 pandemic. Ultimately, Bendiner-Viani shows us how to understand ourselves as part of a shared society, with a shared fate; she shows us that everyday places can be the spaces of liberation in which we can build the cities we need.","brand":"Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani","offers":[{"title":"MIT Press |  Hardback  |  2024-08-27","offer_id":46019552018687,"sku":"9780262049030","price":53.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_91e04b50-5c06-403a-b022-cfde53423531.jpg?v=1723862726","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780262049030","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}