By Erick Villagomez
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Book Review – Redesigning Gridded Cities: Key Examples
Author: Joan Busquets with Pablo Perez-Ramos, Nikos Katsikis, Christina Crawford, Dingliang Yang (Applied Research + Design Publishing, 2016) Former MIT...
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Book Review: Infinite Suburbia
Editors: Alan M. Berger, Joel Kotkin with Celina Balderas Guzman (Princeton Architectural Press, 2017) According to Queens University’s David Gordon...
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Hidden Intelligence: Preserving Historic Settlement Patterns
Humanity’s collective drive towards urbanization within the past century has gone hand-in-hand with the mindless erasure and destruction of past urban...
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Book Review – Rethinking A Lot: The Design and Culture of Parking
Author: Eran Ben-Joseph (MIT Press, 2015) Surface parking lots are ever-present in the contemporary city. Moovelab’s incredible visualization project What...
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Book Review – Villages in the City: A Guide to South China’s Informal Settlements
Editor: Stefan Al (University of Hawai’i Press, 2014) Although writing and research on informal settlements has increased significantly over the...
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Book Review: The Visual Biography of Color
Author: Frank Jacobus (ORO Editions, 2016) Like so many wonderful facets of world that permeate our lives, colour is often taken for granted. More than a...
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Book Review – Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
Author: Eyal Weizman (MIT Press, 2017) I was as surprised as anybody: consoling a number of design students in the foyer of the Museu d’Art...
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Book Review – Los Angeles Boulevard: Eight X-Rays of the Body Public
Author: Doug Suisman (ORO Editions, 2014) As an urban design instructor, practitioner and bibliophile, it is a rare pleasure to discover lesser known...
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Book Review: Atlas of Cities
Editor: Paul Knox (Princeton University Press, 2014) With cities at the centre of all major global phenomena—from climate change to population growth—it...
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Book Review – Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory
Author: Charles Waldheim (Princeton University Press, 2016) It goes without saying that despite its contemporary meaning, practice of ‘urbanism’ is as old...
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Book Review – Medieval Cities: Their Origins and The Revival of Trade
Author: Henri Pirenne (Princeton University Press, 2014) The late fantasy novelist Terry Pratchett once stated: “If you do not know where you come from...
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Book Review: Brodsky and Utkin
Authors: Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015) Speaking to his wonderful book Imaginary Cities, author Darran Anderson...