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War of Streets and Houses
War of Streets and Houses | Sophie Yanow
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2015 Doug Wright Spotlight Award Nomination Ignatz Award Nomination for Outstanding Graphic Novel An American artist witnesses the Quebec spring 2012 student strike on the streets of Montreal. The brutal police response and their violent tactics trigger an exploration of urban planning and its hidden connections to military strategies. Marshal Bugeaud's urban warfare tactics in Algeria, Haussmann's plan for Paris, planning and repression in the New World; theory and personal experience collide into an ambitious and poetic cartoon memoir. Sophie Yanow was born north of San Francisco in 1987. In 2011 she moved to Montreal, and with the Colosse collective published "In Situ," her acclaimed autobiographical comics series. She was an invited artist- researcher for the Canadian Center for Architecture's "C for Condo" workshop, and her work has been exhibited throughout the US and Canada. She lives in Montreal.
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Sarahreadstoomuch
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A short nonfiction graphic novel that looks at urban planning & protest. Written by a queer artist, this touches on sexual identity, racism, feeling comfortable with yourself alone & in a group, and affecting change. It also ties in the history of Algiers and Paris... there's a lot going on, and I wish this was expanded to flesh out more, give more background, etc. #LitsyReadingChallenge #LitsyRC19

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Bertha_Mason
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The concepts she explores, about the politics of geography and space, and how they bear on authoritarian urban planning, in history and in the present, are fascinating, and I wanted to hear more about them. Unfortunately for me, the pages are sparse with information (visual or text) and the book is very short. Either a much denser as-short book, or a much longer as-sparse book, would have been much better to tell this story to my satisfaction.

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Bertha_Mason
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My books just got here from BetterWorldBooks! I'm reading the graphic novels first, which means War of Streets and Houses.