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Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani is a visual urbanist and cofounder of the interdisciplinary studio Buscada. She is the author of Contested City, a finalist and honoree for the Brendan Gill Prize. A widely exhibited photographer, she holds a doctorate in environmental psychology from the Graduate Center, CUNY.
“The Cities We Need is an aesthetically attractive and emotionally moving book of photographs and prose that makes the case that residents of two neighborhoods—one each in Brooklyn, New York, and Oakland, California—find their sense of belonging and freedom to be their most authentic selves through the “everyday places” they encounter on a daily basis...The Cities We Need is a book we need to remind us that personal well-being should be a crucial measure of a city’s success and deserves the same kind of consideration as more quantifiable factors like economic investment or population stability... Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani has used her camera, along with her prose, to hold up a mirror that reflects back to us a city that we should, but do not always, want to see. The Cities We Need reminds us that the most intimate of experiences—on the block or in the corner store—is what makes urban life special and helps urban dwellers feel emotionally fulfilled as human beings.” —The Journal of Urban Affairs
