1. Intelligence
  2. Book

Handmade Urbanism

Handmade Urbanism
Edited by Marcos L Rosa and Ute E Weiland, Jovis, £32

Drawing on local researches in Mumbai, Mexico City, Istanbul, São Paulo and Cape Town, stakeholders in projects in those cities’ ‘less favoured’ areas share their experiences of initiatives. Helpful, like its cartoon-style graphics.

Latest

Super postcode app uses a unique word combination to identify every 3m by 3m square

Trouble finding your delivery address? Try the app

Inventive and appropriate design for social benefit, enlightened education and environmental action shine through in the eleven MacEwen entries that have reached the 2020 shortlist

Eleven schemes make it through to the next round of the MacEwen Award

Entering this year's RIBA Awards? Be aware that sustainability will be high on the judges' list of criteria

Judges will be putting emphasising sustainability

Considerations of the Parliament's effect on Richmond House and Portcullis House, and plans for Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens

Sometimes the obvious can turn out to be perverse

Light-filled building challenges paradigm of unhealthy hospitals

Light-filled building challenges paradigm of unhealthy hospitals