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
Kate Brown · W.W. Norton · 2026
Start small: the self-provisioning city, one tiny garden at a time.
Brent D. Ryan · Springer Nature · 2025
Zoom out: planning for shrinking towns, not just growing ones.
Nasser Rabbat · American University in Cairo Press · 2025
The hardest case: when reconstruction itself becomes violence.
Rosalyn Shieh · Park Books / University of Chicago Press · 2026
Close with the maker’s notebook: an archive of architectural thinking.