In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court’s Inner Mongolian allies....

A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles of legislators, police officers, bankers, journalists, shopkeepers, and other adults...

This book takes as its subject the multiple forms of architecture, design and sociability that Hindu spaces of worship encompass today...

So you're an architect. Now what?

For everyone interested in the enduring appeal of Louis Kahn, this book demonstrates that a close look at how Kahn put his buildings together will reveal a deeply felt philosophy.

D'Souza presents and analyzes different approaches to contemporary architectural design and interprets them through the theory of multiple intelligences...

An interview with Steven Fine

On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean...

Every fall on move-in day, parents tearfully bid farewell to their beloved sons and daughters at college dormitories: it is an age-old ritual...

Between 1940 and 1945, German occupiers transformed Norway into a vast construction zone....

Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society...

Modern humans are an indoor species.,.

Holl offers a succinct introduction to the theory and practice of ecological restoration as a strategy to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems...

Cialdella is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteenth- to early twenty-first century...

Knoblauch argues, architects gained new roles as researchers, organizers, and writers while theories of confinement, territory, and surveillance proliferated...

Those who have followed this podcast in the past, and those who follow developments in cybernetics in the present, will be no strangers to the name Ranulph Glanville.

Hank Dittmar, urban planner, friend of artists and creatives, sometime rancher, “high priest of town planning” to the Prince of Wales, believed in letting small things happen...

Design justice demands a deep understanding of the community and its needs, engagement with community members, and a recognition of their expertise, along with reciprocation of value....

Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity—the fallout shelter father...

Olin’s interest in public outdoor seating in parks and civic spaces revolves around two poles...

Sroufe and Melnyk provide a multi-perspective approach to sustainability and value chains to allow understanding from a variety of disciplines and professional backgrounds...

Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history...

Olin offers a selection from his many sketchbooks is accompanied by transcriptions of notes and observations...

What can be done, then, by individuals, functions, organizations, value chains, and even whole cities to integrate and align sustainability?

Roberts tells the story of the city through bricks, glass, wood, and mortar, revealing why and how it evolved into the nation's biggest and most influential....