Niggli Verlag

Revealing how architects can use human rights as powerful tools for better, fairer urban planning - to create livable, sustainable cities of the future.

The very diverse and impressively illustrated contributions give an immediate view of the multiple changes taking place in Tbilisi between the desire for the preservation of the past and the dawn of a new era.

The conquering by the Persian Safavid dynasty in 1502 ushered in the golden age for today's Iranian city of Isfahan - the city whose name is not without reason translated as 'The Pearl of the Orient'. This title presents the masterworks of Persian architecture and horticulture from the 16th to 18th centuries.