City Architecture

Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the...

Anthropic's first official technical certification has arrived. The exam does not test clever prompts. It tests whether you can build production AI systems that actually work at scale. The Claude Certified Architect, Foundations (CCA-F) covers multi-agent orchestration, structured output validation, hallucination prevention through programmatic guardrails, context window economics, and Claude Code in CI/CD pipelines. This guide prepares you for the CCA-F exam and is a standalone reference for production LLM architecture. The architectural principles apply to any production LLM-based system,...

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” — from Invisible Cities In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo —...

From the creators of the wildly popular99% Invisiblepodcast, comes a guidebook to the unnoticed yet essential elements of our cities. Narrated by Roman Mars, with a bonus Q&A and a Full Episode of 99% Invisible. Have you ever wondered what those bright, squiggly graffiti marks on the sidewalk...

Landscape designer and historian Wade Graham follows the acclaimed American Eden with a lively, accessible cultural history of modern cities—from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and “sustainable” developments—seen through the lens of planning, design...

La transformation numérique a redéfini la manière dont les gouvernements, les entreprises et les institutions comprennent le territoire. Aujourd’hui, les données géospatiales ne sont plus seulement des cartes — elles constituent une infrastructure stratégique pour la planification, la gestion environnementale, la surveillance urbaine, la sécurité territoriale, la logistique et la prise de décision fondée sur des preuves. Architecture des Solutions Géospatiales est un guide technique et professionnel complet qui présente, de manière structurée et approfondie, comment ...

Update 02/12/25: NEW EDITION! A Vision for the Future Starts Today What if the cities of tomorrow were cleaner, greener, and smarter? Imagine a world where bustling metropolises thrive without harming the planet—where urban spaces integrate renewable energy, green transportation, and nature-driven solutions to fight climate change. Green Cities is your ultimate guide to the revolutionary movement reshaping urban landscapes for a more sustainable and resilient future. Why This Book Matters Now As climate change accelerates and urban populations grow, the need for sustainable cities has ...

Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again. At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is...

It’s time to break free from our Sunday-centric, formulaic versions of church and instead architect fresh kingdom ecosystems as an ancient yet new frontier for sustainable mission. The temptation for many church leaders is to take what’s worked elsewhere and use it as a paint-by-number. Yet Jesus showed us a different way. Every word he spoke and everything he did utterly broke the molds, rules, and laws that people had created to confine God and his kingdom.

California's 1849 gold rush triggered creation of the "instant city" of San Francisco as a base to exploit the rich natural resources of the American West. City of Wood examines how capitalists and workers logged the state's vast redwood forests to create the financial capital and construction materials needed to build the regional metropolis of San Francisco. Architectural historian James Michael Buckley investigates the remote forest and its urban core as two poles of a regional "city."

Digital transformation has redefined how governments, companies, and institutions understand territory. Today, geospatial data is not just about maps — it is strategic infrastructure for planning, environmental management, urban monitoring, territorial security, logistics, and evidence-based decision-making. Geospatial Solutions Architecture is a complete technical-professional guide that presents, in a structured and in-depth way, how to build modern geospatial platforms capable of integrating data, services, analytics, and territorial intelligence. This book leads the reader from the ...

Digital transformation has redefined how governments, companies, and institutions understand territory. Today, geospatial data is not just about maps — it is strategic infrastructure for planning, environmental management, urban monitoring, territorial security, logistics, and evidence-based decision-making. Geospatial Solutions Architecture is a complete technical-professional guide that presents, in a structured and in-depth way, how to build modern geospatial platforms capable of integrating data, services, analytics, and territorial intelligence. This book leads the reader from the ...

From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links between the buildings we live in and our long-term wellbeing...

From the New York Times architecture critic, his celebrated walking tours of New York City, now expanded, covering four of the five boroughs and some 540 million years of history, accompanied by some of the people who know it best As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed...

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, protecting the planet’s cities from the effects of climate change and safeguarding the...

Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic “Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New Yorker “Wry and revelatory.” —The New York Times "A romp, packed with tales of anger, violence, theft...

They told you the Empire fell by accident. They lied. What if the ruins beneath your feet weren’t ancient at all? What if they were buried—deliberately—less than 200 years ago? This is not a theory. It’s a dossier. A classified reconstruction of a civilization erased from memory and replaced with a lie. Tartaria wasn’t a myth. It was a global empire. It harnessed wireless energy, built impossible architecture, and may have understood consciousness itself. Then it vanished. Not by disaster. By design. Inside this file, you’ll find the evidence they buried. The photos they ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”—Jon Stewart NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR “Engaging.”—Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The...

Jane Jacobs and the Human City: Exploring the Principles of Human-Centered Urban Design is a powerful exploration of one of the most influential urban thinkers of the twentieth century. Jane Jacobs changed the way the world understands cities by insisting that real urban vitality comes from people—their interactions, diversity, and daily lives—not from abstract blueprints or top-down planning. This book introduces Jacobs’s life and legacy while connecting her ideas to the modern framework of human-centered design. From her defense of sidewalks and public spaces to her critique of ...

This New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour. One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In her extraordinary...