{"product_id":"urbanist-desire-davy-knittle-9781517918057","title":"Urbanist Desire: Queer and Trans Survival in the City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow writers and artists have used city planning strategies to push back against harm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlack queer feminist thinker Audre Lorde famously declared that \"the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.\" This language is normally understood as a metaphor, but as author Davy Knittle argues in this provocative book, queer and trans activists have long used the tools of city planning and urban design to create written and visual art that critiques those in power and offers points of resilience to their own communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA close look at the ways queer and trans writers and artists resisted predatory redevelopment in New York City from 1950 to 2020, \u003ci\u003eUrbanist Desire\u003c\/i\u003e draws on the work of James Schuyler, June Jordan, David Wojnarowicz, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, and Zeyn Joukhadar, exploring how they intervened in major political flashpoints like the War on Poverty, the AIDS-era housing crisis, and gentrification in Brooklyn and Queens. Presenting a new cultural history of New York City, Knittle explains how urban change and the more-than-human life of cities have been foundational concerns for queer and trans cultural production since the 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnding with analysis of the 2022 speculative novel \u003ci\u003eEverything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, Urbanist Desire\u003c\/i\u003e looks to the past to imagine a better future for New York City and for all marginalized people. Knittle demonstrates how to move past a recuperative response to harm and toward one that can change the structure of society by documenting how queer and trans activists have engaged the strategies of planning and design to address spatial, social, and economic inequality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Davy Knittle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517918057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517918057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs","brand":"Davy Knittle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997573624063,"sku":"9781517918057","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/urbanist-desire-davy-knittle-9781517918057","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}