The Equity Library is a curated collection of books exploring various issues related to equity in the built environment available to students, faculty, and staff of the UVA School of Architecture to borrow.
Last Updated: April 15th, 2021
Sharing material resources during a pandemic comes with risks. If you are uncomfortable sharing books, we encourage you to seek out digital copies of these titles through resources such as the HathiTrust, the Internet Archive, or your local library system. If you would like to participate in the book sharing circuit:
1. Submit a request. Try to limit yourself to borrowing one book at a time so others might also have access.
2. Someone from manifestA will coordinate a contactless delivery if local to Charlottesville or will ship the book via USPS media mail within 2-5 days.
PLEASE TAKE PRECAUTIONS AND FOLLOW BEST PRACTICES DURING THE PANDEMIC. Library researchers currently recommend a 72 hour quarantine for physical materials based on our current understanding of COVID transmission. We also realize this step may involve the costs of packing and shipping. USPS media mail is generally a very reasonable shipping rate. If you are uncomfortable with incurring these costs as part of participating in the book share, please let us know.
3. Now read! Learn! Take notes! Find inspiration!
4. Let us know when you are done! We will either pick up your book or let you know who is next in line to borrow it.
AVAILABLE BOOKS:
The Aesthetics of Equity
Craig Wilkins
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Interboro
belonging: a culture of place
bell hooks
Beyond Survival:
Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
ed. Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi, Peipzna-Samarasinha
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Kathryn Yusoff
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Black Built:
History and Architecture in the Black Community
Paul Wellington
Black Dada Reader
Adam Pendleton
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin W. Kimmerer
The Color of Law:
A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Constructive Feminism:
Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City
Daphne Spain
Critical Care:
Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet
ed. Fritz and Krasney
Design as Democracy:
Techniques for Collective Creativity
David de la Pena
Design for Ecological Democracy
Randolph Hester
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Disability, Space, Architecture
ed. Jos Boys
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Educated in Tyranny:
Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University
Maurie D. McInnis, Louis P. Nelson
Emergent Strategy:
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
adrienne maree brown
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Evicted:
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Farming While Black:
Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Leah Penniman
Future Practice
Rory Hyde
Gathering Moss:
A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin W. Kimmerer
Gendered Spaces
Daphne Spain
Good Deeds, Good Design:
Community Service Through Architecture
Bryan Bell
Craig Wilkins
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Interboro
belonging: a culture of place
bell hooks
Beyond Survival:
Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
ed. Ejeris Dixon, Leah Lakshmi, Peipzna-Samarasinha
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Kathryn Yusoff
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Black Built:
History and Architecture in the Black Community
Paul Wellington
Black Dada Reader
Adam Pendleton
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin W. Kimmerer
The Color of Law:
A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Constructive Feminism:
Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City
Daphne Spain
Critical Care:
Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet
ed. Fritz and Krasney
Design as Democracy:
Techniques for Collective Creativity
David de la Pena
Design for Ecological Democracy
Randolph Hester
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Disability, Space, Architecture
ed. Jos Boys
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Educated in Tyranny:
Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University
Maurie D. McInnis, Louis P. Nelson
Emergent Strategy:
Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
adrienne maree brown
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Evicted:
Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Farming While Black:
Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Leah Penniman
Future Practice
Rory Hyde
Gathering Moss:
A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Robin W. Kimmerer
Gendered Spaces
Daphne Spain
Good Deeds, Good Design:
Community Service Through Architecture
Bryan Bell
Indigenizing Philosophy through the Land
Brian Burkhart
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Invisible Women:
Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez
The Land Was Ours:
How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South
Andrew W. Kahrl
Landscape and Race in the United States
Richard H. Schein
Lost in the Transit Desert
Diane Jones Allen
Matters of Care:
Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds
Puig de la Bellacasa
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century
Grace Lee Boggs
On Beauty and Being Just
Elaine Scarry
Race and Modern Architecture
ed. Irene Cheng, Charles Davis II, Mabel O. Wilson
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Rebel Cities:
From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
David Harvey
Resilience for All:
Striving for Equity Through
Community-Drive Design
Barbara Brown Wilson
The Right to the City
Don Mitchell
Root Shock:
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America,
And What We Can Do About It
Mindy Thompson Fullilove
The Senses:
Design Beyond Vision
Ellen Lupton, Andrea Lipps
Space Unveiled:
Invisible Cultures in the Design Studio
ed. Carla Jackson Bell
Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture
Nishat Awan et al
Thomas Jefferson Architect
ed. LLoyd DeWitt, Corey Piper
*chapter of note: "Race, Reason, and the Architecture of Jefferson's Virginia Statehouse" by Mabel O. Wilson
* *chapter of note: "The Architecture of Democracy in a Landscape of Slavery" by Louis Nelson
What Can and Can't Be Said:
Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South
Dell Upton
Where Are the Women Architects?
Despina Stratigakos
Women and the Everyday City:
Public Space in San Francisco,
1890-1915 (Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture)
Jessica Ellen Sewell
Brian Burkhart
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Invisible Women:
Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez
The Land Was Ours:
How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South
Andrew W. Kahrl
Landscape and Race in the United States
Richard H. Schein
Lost in the Transit Desert
Diane Jones Allen
Matters of Care:
Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds
Puig de la Bellacasa
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century
Grace Lee Boggs
On Beauty and Being Just
Elaine Scarry
Race and Modern Architecture
ed. Irene Cheng, Charles Davis II, Mabel O. Wilson
CURRENTLY CHECKED OUT
Rebel Cities:
From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
David Harvey
Resilience for All:
Striving for Equity Through
Community-Drive Design
Barbara Brown Wilson
The Right to the City
Don Mitchell
Root Shock:
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America,
And What We Can Do About It
Mindy Thompson Fullilove
The Senses:
Design Beyond Vision
Ellen Lupton, Andrea Lipps
Space Unveiled:
Invisible Cultures in the Design Studio
ed. Carla Jackson Bell
Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture
Nishat Awan et al
Thomas Jefferson Architect
ed. LLoyd DeWitt, Corey Piper
*chapter of note: "Race, Reason, and the Architecture of Jefferson's Virginia Statehouse" by Mabel O. Wilson
* *chapter of note: "The Architecture of Democracy in a Landscape of Slavery" by Louis Nelson
What Can and Can't Be Said:
Race, Uplift, and Monument Building in the Contemporary South
Dell Upton
Where Are the Women Architects?
Despina Stratigakos
Women and the Everyday City:
Public Space in San Francisco,
1890-1915 (Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture)
Jessica Ellen Sewell
ON OUR WISH LIST
| A Queer New York | Jen Jack Gieseking |
| Black Futures | Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew |
| Carceral Capitalism | Jackie Wang |
| Imperial Intimacies | Hazel Carby |
| Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore | Elizabeth Rush |
| Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Race and Architecture | Craig E. Barton |
| Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors | Carolyn Finney |
| What Can a Body Do? How We Meet the Built World | Sara Hendren |
| Palaces for the People | Eric Klinenberg |
| Future Eaters | Tim Flannery |
| Dark Emu | Bruce Pascoe |
| Who Cleans the Parks | John Krinsky and Maud Simonet |
| Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World | Leslie Kern |
| Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating | Maura Reilly |
| Design Justice | Sasha Costanza-Chock |
| Black Landscapes Matter | ed. Walter Hood and Grace Mitchell Tada |