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Kristian Ly Serena
Age-Inclusive Public Space

Hatje Cantz, 2019

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network April 10, 2020 Marshall Poe

Public spaces tend to over-represent facilities and spatial design for the young and the middle-aged, whereas elderly citizens are all too often neglected by contemporary urban design practice. Dominique Hauderowicz and Kristian Ly Serena‘s edited volume Age-Inclusive Public Space (Hatje Cantz, 2019) establishes a dialogue between architects and academic contributors... Read More

Jonathan Barnett
Designing the Megaregion
Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale
Island Press, 2020

New Books in American Studies New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network April 8, 2020 Tricia Keffer

The US population is estimated to grow by more than 110 million people by 2050, and much of this growth will take place where cities and their suburbs are expanding to meet the suburbs of neighboring cities, creating continuous urban megaregions. There are now at least a dozen megaregions in... Read More

Diane Jones Allen
Lost in the Transit Desert
Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form
Routledge, 2017

New Books in African American Studies New Books in American Studies New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in Geography New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books in Public Policy New Books Network March 18, 2020 Tricia Keffer

Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence of public transit creates barriers to viable... Read More

Cole Roskam, “Improvised City: Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937” (U Washington Press, 2019)

Cole Roskam
Improvised City
Architecture and Governance in Shanghai, 1843-1937
University of Washington Press, 2019

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in East Asian Studies New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 10, 2020 Ed Pulford

Shanghai’s role in shaping modern China and indeed the very idea of what modernity is in China can hardly be overstated. Much of this long-lasting influence can be seen in how the city itself came into being as a complex product of Chinese and colonial forces, and as Cole Roskam... Read More

Thaïsa Way
GGN
Landscapes 1999 to 2018
Timber Press, 2018

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters March 9, 2020 Tricia Keffer

Gustafson Guthrie Nichol (GGN) is a landscape architecture firm based in Seattle, Washington. GGN was founded in 1999 by Jennifer Guthrie, Shannon Nichol, and Kathryn Gustafson, and it is world-renowned for designing high-use landscapes in complex, urban contexts. Thaïsa Way’s GGN: Landscapes 1999 to 2018 (Timber Press, 2018) is the... Read More

Steven Stolman
Heirloom Houses
The Architecture of Wade Weissmann
Gibbs Smith, 2018

New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books Network March 5, 2020 Tricia Keffer

In Heirloom Houses : the Architecture of Wade Weissmann (Gibbs Smith, 2018), Steven Stolman explains how the houses designed by Wade Weissmann and his firm tell the stories of the homeowners. Like beautiful music, a Wade Weissmann house is composed of notes and expressions, rhythm and syncopation, moving forward in... Read More

David Morton, “Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique” (Ohio UP, 2019)

David Morton
Age of Concrete
Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique
Ohio University Press, 2019

New Books in African Studies New Books in Anthropology New Books in Architecture New Books in Arts & Letters New Books in European Studies New Books in History New Books in Peoples & Places New Books in Politics & Society New Books Network March 3, 2020 Jacob Doherty

Who built Africa’s cities? Going beyond the colonial archive and the planner’s gaze, David Morton’s Age of Concrete: Housing and the Shape of Aspiration in the Capital of Mozambique (Ohio University Press, 2019) describes the incremental process through which Maputo’s suburbios – popular neighborhoods outside the formally planned city –... Read More