The texts below were starting points for thinking together about care and cities.


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The Care Collective. (2020). Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence. Verso.

Federici, S., & Jones, C. (2020). Counterplanning in the Crisis of Social Reproduction. South Atlantic Quarterly, 119(1), 153–165. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8007713

Haraway, D. (2007). When Species Meet. University Of Minnesota Press.

Huron, A. (2015). Working with Strangers in Saturated Space: Reclaiming and Maintaining the Urban Commons. Antipode, 47(4), 963–979. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12141

Ostrom, E. (2000). Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14(3), 137–158. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.14.3.137

Petrescu, D., & Trogal, K. (Eds.). (2017). The Social (Re)Production of Architecture: Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary Practice. Routledge.

Power, E. R., & Williams, M. J. (2020). Cities of care: A platform for urban geographical care research. Geography Compass, 14(1), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12474

Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2001). On Happiness and Human Potentials: A Review of Research on Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being. Annual Review of Psychology, 52(1), 141–166. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.52.1.141

Rydin, Y., & Tate, L. (Eds.). (2016). Actor Networks of Planning: Exploring the influence of Actor Network Theory. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315714882

Trogal, K. (2017). Caring: Making Commons, Making Connections. In D. Petrescu & K. Trogal (Eds.), The Social (Re)Production of Architecture: Politics, Values and Actions in Contemporary Practice (pp. 159–174). Routledge.

Tronto, J. C. (2015). Who Cares?: How to Reshape a Democratic Politics. Cornell Selects.

Wright, K. (2014). Becoming-With. Environmental Humanities, 5(1), 277–281. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3615514