Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism Inequality: What Can Be Done? Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller On Property The Death and Life of Great American Cities
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times The City We Became Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880 (Revised) Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing
Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy The Moynihan Report: The Negro Family - The Case for National Action
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear Meet Us by the Roaring Sea Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Civic Tech Book Club Reading List

By Civic Tech Book Club

By Civic Tech Book Club

Civic Tech Book Club Reading List

This is a living list of recommended readings by Civic Tech Book Club. It is sorted by recent reads by the group, then alphabetically.

 

For more reading recommendations (including articles and items not on Bookshop), see Civic Tech Book Club.

Meet Us by the Roaring Sea

Meet Us by the Roaring Sea

Akil Kumarasamy

$27.00
$25.11
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal about...

Deirdre Mask

$26.99
$25.10
A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences

A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences

Shannon Mattern

$19.95
$18.55
On Property

On Property

Rinaldo Walcott

$12.95
$12.04
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's...

Xiaowei Wang

$16.00
Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of...

Sarah Brayne

$29.95
$27.85
The City We Became

The City We Became

N. K. Jemisin

$28.00
$26.04
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human...

Shoshana Zuboff

$38.00
$35.34
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Ruha Benjamin

$19.95
$18.55
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

Anand Giridharadas

$17.00
$15.81
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

$19.00
$17.67
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times

Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times

Nick Montgomery and Carla Bergman

$16.00
$14.88
Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller

Donella Meadows

$22.95
$21.34
Inequality: What Can Be Done?

Inequality: What Can Be Done?

Anthony B. Atkinson

$22.00
$20.46
The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear

The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming...

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and William J. Barber

$16.00
$14.88
The Moynihan Report: The Negro Family - The Case for National Action

The Moynihan Report: The Negro Family - The Case for National...

Daniel Patrick Moynihan and U. S. Department of Labor

$20.69
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

Christopher Alexander

$65.00
$60.45
Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means

Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means

Donald P. Moynihan and Pamela Herd

$43.13
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Safiya Umoja Noble

$32.20
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines...

Siva Vaidhyanathan

$24.95
$23.20
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

Meredith Broussard

$15.95
$14.83
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of...

Kate Crawford

$31.00
$28.83
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police,...

Virginia Eubanks

$19.00
$17.67
Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism

Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones,...

Allissa V Richardson

$39.09
Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism

Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of...

Julie E Cohen

$52.89