Recommended reading on cities, homes, architecture, real estate, and urbanism The last week of December is a time for catching up on all the internet you missed this year. When it comes to cities, architecture, and design, we've got you covered. We've already rounded up our own favorite features of the year from Curbed's West Coast sites and Curbed.com. Here, we tally up the best longform we've read elsewhere this year, covering everything from Pokémon Go to Brooklyn brownstones to Donald Trump's hotels. Know of a story we missed" Please share your own recommendations in the comments section.

Resist Pokémon Go
Sam Kriss | Jacobin
For the player of Pokémon Go, the injunction is to obey. Real human bodies are tamed and directed by dangling virtual lures: businesses can buy in-game items that will tempt customers into their establishments; the state could probably quell an uprising by scattering hundreds of rare Pokémon away from the central square. If they wanted to, the game?s creators could send people leaping willingly off cliffs, dawdling on train tracks, running into forest fires. For a few brief weeks in the summer of 2016, America got a break from its tedious and depressing presidential election as Pokémon Go fever swept the nation and players swept their cities in search of a catch. But the game was also the world's first mass experience with augmented reality, and Sam Kriss reads the writing on the wall: Pokémon Go doesn't encourage users to explore...