Global building and construction cultures are hard-wired to constructing too much, too badly, with major social and ecological consequences. Rob Imrie calls us

This accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of unprecedented building. Exploring the proliferation of building

In The Concrete Plateau, Andrew Grant examines the ways that urbanization has extended into the Tibetan Plateau. Many people still think of Tibetans as not bein

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