the reading list

my alma mater was books…a good library

i could spend the rest of my life reading, just to satisfy my curiousity

Malcolm X

currently reading

currently reading

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs

A post modern critique of city planning.

Crooked Kingdom, Leigh Bardugo

Second in the Six of Crows duology and another installation in Bardugo’s Grishaverse.

the reading list

A Brief History of Women in Pants

https://qz.com/quartzy/1597688/a-brief-history-of-women-in-pants

A Dress to the Nation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloeiriskennedy/2024/11/05/a-dress-to-the-nation-fashions-impact-on-american-politics/

A History of Racism in Fashion

https://www.complex.com/style/a/complex/a-history-of-racism-in-fashion

Boosting Beauty in Decline

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22642483/

Facts and Figures: Economic Empowerment

https://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/economic-empowerment/facts-and-figures

Fashion and Politics

https://fashinnovation.nyc/fashion-and-politics/

Innovative Planning Concepts for the 21st Century

https://www.digitalbluefoam.com/post/urban-planning-concepts

Is the Hemline Index Actually Real?

https://www.instyle.com/fashion/clothing/what-is-the-hemline-index-real

Oppressive Office Dress Codes Need to Go

https://www.vice.com/en/article/its-time-to-rethink-eurocentric-office-dress-codes/

Planners in Politics, Politicians in Planning

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14649357.2021.1921972#d1e133

Post-Feminist Romantic Comedies: An Analysis of Gender Roles and Relationships.

https://www.academia.edu/107375624/Post_Feminist_Romantic_Comedies_An_Analysis_of_Gender_Roles_and_Relationships

Racial Disparities in Urban City Planning: “Environmental Racism”

https://sites.brown.edu/publichealthjournal/2024/04/04/racial-disparities-in-urban-city-planning-environmental-racism/#:~:text=Another%20term%2C%20%E2%80%9Cgeographic%20racism%2C%E2%80%9D%20has%20been%20coined,structures%20that%20are%20key%20to%20healthy%20living.&text=Studies%20have%20found%20that%20the%20racist%20redlining,linked%20to%20neighborhoods%20having%20increased%20temperatures%20today.

Relationships in Romantic Comedies

https://theoxfordblue.co.uk/relationships-in-romantic-comedies/

The Bechdel Test

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168116147/what-is-the-bechdel-test-a-shorthand-for-measuring-representation-in-movies

The Definition of Romantic Comedy

https://nofilmschool.com/romantic-comedy-definition

The Politics of Fashion

https://artfulliving.com/politics-of-fashion-2022/

The Politics of Planning

https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34396/chapter-abstract/291696441?redirectedFrom=fulltext

The Tradwife Aesthetic

https://fashionmagazine.com/style/tradwife-aesthetic/

Top 15 Theories in Urban Planning

https://urbandesignlab.in/top-15-theories-in-urban-planning/?srsltid=AfmBOoq_kwj3EvmkciJatar8-d4MiOG6cV5koZneMlBGSL127PloS0cp

Top Political Fashion Moments of All Time

https://artfulliving.com/top-political-fashion-moments-of-all-time/

Tradwife Content Isn't Really for Women

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/opinion/tradwife-tiktok.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Urban Planning

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/urban-planning/

When Harry Met Sally and the High Maintenance Woman

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/07/when-harry-met-sally-and-the-high-maintenance-woman/594382/

With Recession Threatening, The Lipstick Effect Kicks In And Lipstick Sales Rise

https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2022/06/01/with-inflation-rising-the-lipstick-effect-kicks-in-and-lipstick-sales-rise/