{"product_id":"gabrielle-bendiner-viani-the-cities-we-need","title":"Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani: The Cities We Need","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn expressive book of prose and photographs that reveals the powerful ways our everyday places support our shared belonging.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhere would you take someone on a guided tour of your neighborhood? In \u003cem\u003eThe Cities We Need\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003eplacework\u003c\/em\u003e, the way that unassuming places foster a sense of belonging and, in fact, do the essential work of helping us become communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\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. \u003cem\u003eThe Cities We Need\u003c\/em\u003eexplores 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50555674034233,"sku":"210000003179","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0782\/0872\/9145\/files\/9780262049030.jpg?v=1790279803","url":"https:\/\/shop.icp.org\/products\/gabrielle-bendiner-viani-the-cities-we-need","provider":"International Center of Photography","version":"1.0","type":"link"}