The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city. Sixty-three selections are included: forty-five from the sixth edition and eighteen new selections, including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader. The anthology features a Prologue essay on "How to Study Cities", eight part introductions as well as individual introductions to each of the selected articles.

The new edition has been extensively upd...

How must design studies be structured in order to not only keep pace with the changes in the economy and society but also to shape them? How much artificial intelligence and coding must be conveyed during studies? This book documents five years of international research on these questions, which 250 designers participated in worldwide. Text in English and German.

De stoep is waar een prettige en gezonde stad begint. De stoep is een overgangsgebied tussen huis en straat waar sociale contacten tussen bewoners plaatsvinden en de uitstraling van de straat voor een belangrijk deel wordt bepaald. Een succesvolle stoep ontstaat echter niet zomaar. Vooral niet nu overheden en woningcorporaties zich bezinnen op hun taken en meer en meer wordt gevraagd van andere partijen en bewoners. De stoep laat zien dat deze ontwikkelingen juist voor de overgangsgebieden in...

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The fiercely social and vigorously innovative Mei realizes trend-setting buildings in the Netherlands and abroad. This Rotterdam-based architecture firm has built up an idiosyncratic oeuvre in which respect for the environment is central.

This first overview shows works of the past 25 years. From the 1995 modular Smarthouse to the wooden residential building Sawa that is currently being developed: they all display a fascination with intelligent building...