Notebook
Reading Index
A select working list of the literature that’s shaped how I think about research, design, and life. I hope the ideas and narratives within them inspire you as they have me – and I’d love to hear what you’re reading.
“One learns a landscape finally not by knowing the name or identity of everything in it, but by perceiving the relationships in it…”
– Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams
Research
Wilson, A., & Tewdwr-Jones, M. (2022). Digital Participatory Planning: Citizen Engagement, Democracy, and Design. Routledge.
LeGates, R. T., Stout, F., & Caves, R. W. (Eds.). (2020). The City Reader (7th ed.). Routledge.
Kurgan, L., & Brawley, D. (2019). Ways of Knowing Cities. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.
Gillespie, T., Boczkowski, P.J., & Foot, K.A. (2014). Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society. MIT Press.
Townsend, A. (2013). Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for A New Utopia. W. W. Norton & Company.
Design
Godlewski, J. (2023). The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements. Routledge.
Bernstein, P. (2022). Machine Learning: Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. RIBA Publishing.
Almazán, J., McReynolds, J., Saito, N., & Studiolab (2022). Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City. ORO Editions.
Elleh, N. (2016). Architecture and Politics in Nigeria: The Study of a Late Twentieth-Century Enlightenment-Inspired Modernism at Abuja, 1900–2016. Routledge.
Bachelard, G. (2014). The Poetics of Space. Penguin Classics.
Pleasure
Radtke, K. (2021). Seek You: A Journey through American Loneliness. Pantheon Books.
Bannerman, I., Jimenez, S., & Jones, S. (Eds.). (2019). World War 3 Illustrated. #50, Shameless feminists. AK Press.
Wertz, J. (2017). Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City (1st ed.). Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers.
Kern, L. (2010). Sex and the revitalized city: Gender, condominium development, and urban citizenship. UBC Press.
Satrapi, M. (2007). The complete Persepolis. Pantheon Books
See what I’m currently reading on Goodreads!
Sketchbook
Small Drawings, Often (2026): A series of quick, daily drawings of textures, patterns, and life that I encounter.
Blog
Power, Legibility, and Justice: The Politics of Urban Life
In the shaping of urban systems, the state’s gaze has been central to how power is exercised. James C. Scott’s Seeing Like a State unpacks how legibility – the rendering of society and nature into simplified, administrative forms – has historically enabled states to pursue large-scale interventions with uneven consequences.
Sounds
A recording of my presentation at the 8th Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning: Healing Place and Planet. I shared my ongoing research with Gabriel Zhiri, in which we explore emerging patterns of climate adaptation and examine how rising temperatures intersect with spatial and socioeconomic realities across parts of Northern Nigeria.