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The city, redrawn

Gardens, shrinking towns, and reconstruction after the worst.

Design at the scale of the city: from the smallest self-provisioning plot to whole towns and the politics of rebuilding. The arts-and-design shelf as one continuous argument about place.

4 books · in order

  1. Kate Brown · W.W. Norton · 2026

    Start small: the self-provisioning city, one tiny garden at a time.

  2. Brent D. Ryan · Springer Nature · 2025

    Zoom out: planning for shrinking towns, not just growing ones.

  3. Nasser Rabbat · American University in Cairo Press · 2025

    The hardest case: when reconstruction itself becomes violence.

  4. Rosalyn Shieh · Park Books / University of Chicago Press · 2026

    Close with the maker’s notebook: an archive of architectural thinking.

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