Urban Design, Planning and Housing

A unique perspective on architecture and the future of urban planning, with over 40 radical visionary projects from the most prominent design agencies worldwide.

Features the six winning proposals of the 2021 EUROPAN competition for the Austrian cities of Graz, Klagenfurt, and Linz that offer pioneering ideas for tackling climate change and balancing social, economic and cultural inequalities in cities.

The Multiplex Typology explores the unplanned hybrid typology that emerged in Kuwait in response to certain economic, sociocultural, and regulatory constraints.

This book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become "emerging global cities"-centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.

This radical book aims to inject new insight and urgency into the discourse on the retrofitting of commercial and residential buildings in the face of the climate emergency. It is about the why, how and who should take the lead in revolutionising buildings in the face of serious climate and social change.

This book examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such projects range from guerrilla gardens and bike lanes to more formalized temporary beaches and swimming pools, parklets, pop-up plazas and buildings, and container towns.