The City of Our Dreaming by Laleh Khalili - ISBN: 9781039058064
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Dream cities forged by alchemy: freedom, kinship, and breaking bread.

The City of Our Dreaming

The Alchemy Lecture 2024

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  • Hardcover

    184 pages

  • Release Date

    28 October 2025

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Summary

Four Alchemists. One book. A constellation of ideas.

The third annual Alchemy Lecture took place in October 2024 at York University to a sold-out in-person audience and online viewers from multiple continents. Four Alchemists—thinkers and practitioners working across disciplines and geographies—shared their ideas of cities and how to shape them according to community needs. Their urgent, poignant and inventive lectures have been captured and expanded in these pages.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781039058064
ISBN-10:103905806X
Author:Laleh Khalili, V. Mitch McEwen, Pereira Leandro Gabriela
Publisher:Random House Canada
Imprint:Knopf Canada
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:184
Release Date:28 October 2025
Weight:275g
Dimensions:211mm x 139mm
Series:The Alchemy Lecture
About The Author

Laleh Khalili

CHRISTINA SHARPE is the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University. She is the author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being; Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects; and Ordinary Notes.

LALEH KHALILI is the Al Qasimi Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. She has written or edited seven books, including Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration.

V. MITCH MCEWEN leads Harlem-based Atelier Office and teaches on the faculty at Princeton University’s School of Architecture. She is one of ten co-founders of the Black Reconstruction Collective, and her design work has been commissioned by MoMA and the Venice Architecture Biennale US Pavilion.

GABRIELA LEANDRO PEREIRA is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the Federal University of Bahia. She is a member of the Lugar Comum Research Group and coordinator of the Corpo, Discurso e Território Study Group.

LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and musician. She is the author of eight previous books, including her latest non-fiction project Theory of Water: Nishnaabeg Maps to the Times Ahead. Her last album, Theory of Ice, was shortlisted for a Polaris Prize.

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