Curated Lists 2023

Graffiti has long been an element of the urban landscape, spray-can art first hitting city walls in New York and Philadelphia in the late 1960s. As hip-hop culture spread from America, graffiti became a worldwide phenomenon, the artistic language of young people everywhere. In over 2,000 images, discover the works of 150 graffiti artists from around the world.
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Around the world, city sidewalks have become runways where unique modes of dressing are displayed, consumed, and exported. Their messages include resistance, solidarity, subversion, social transformation, or musical affiliation. Organized by continent and with 600 color images, this book explores urban street style in all its global diversity.
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Miami glamour, Miami madness can be found in the city’s unique design and architecture – from revitalized South Beach Deco to Brickell booms, to a city-wide blending of world influences and styles. The Miami Modern, or MiMo, is like no other aesthetic in the world. This filed guide and visual document will help you discover the gems and masterpieces of Miami.
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In this nonfiction teen book, Berna Anat explains all the stuff young adults need to know about personal finance, covering everything from how and why to make a budget, to understanding the inequalities of our economy and how to work to change them.
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It is a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the supertall megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more ambitious than any in history. Stefan Al, an architect who has worked on some the largest building in the world, reveals the advancements that make these structures possible, but also explores the risks in inequality, carbon emissions, and contagion.
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From brightly painted loncheras offering tacos to an upscale mobile vendor serving lobster rolls, urban food trucks welcome customers ranging from gastro-tourists to construction workers, all eager for food that is delicious, authentic, and relatively inexpensive. This book examines the food truck phenomenon in North American cities from Los Angeles to Montreal, investigating the discriminatory implementation of rules, food trucks as part of community economic development, and the food truck’s role in cultural identity formation.
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