🐻 Cornell Architecture unofficial reading list 2026
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| Freshman level | |
|---|---|
| Building to Extract: Architecture & Natural Resources ARCH 1901 (fa26) |
• Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country by Traci Brynne Voyles • Architecture & the Face of Coal: Mining & Modern Britain by Gary A. Boyd • Oil Revolution: Anticolonial Elites, Sovereign Rights & the Economic Culture of Decolonization by Christopher R. W. Dietrich • Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power & Working-Class Communities by Dinius & Vergara • The Company Town: Architecture & Society in the Early Industrial Age by John Garner • The Company Town by Hardy Green • Classes of Labour: Work & Life in a Central Indian Steel Town by Jonathan Parry • El Dorado In West Africa: The Gold Mining Frontier, African Labor & Colonial Capitalism by Raymond E. Dumett • Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest by Linda Carlson • The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand & How It Transformed Civilization by Vince Beiser • City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity & the Making of Modern Kirkuk by Arbella Bet-Shlimon • Brazil’s Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power & Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964 by Oliver Dinius • Extraction Ecologies & the Literature of the Long Exhaustion by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller |