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A New Novel Captures the Precarious State of Cities

Set in a dystopic Toronto, The Marigold explores how the twin forces of climate collapse and rapacious investment capital have pushed urban areas to the breaking point.

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Does Parking Explain the American City?

In a new book, journalist Henry Grabar explains how parking, more than any other force or need, shaped the fabric of American cities and suburbs.

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How to Be a Design Student Offers Tools for Lifelong Learning

Design educator Mitch Goldstein packs lessons from his years spent teaching into an accessible volume with plenty to offer designers no matter what age.

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A New Book Sheds Light on Russel and Mary Wright’s Unconventional Home

The midcentury design power couple's upstate New York was a laboratory for experimentation with natural materials.

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A New Book by Shannon Mattern Reveals the Consequences of ‘Smart Cities’

A City Is Not a Computer reassesses computational models of urbanism, arguing the impossibility of summarizing our messy cities with tidy narratives.

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A New Book Chronicles the History of Cranbrook Academy of Art

With Eyes Opened includes profiles of 200 artists associated with the influential art school over more than eighty years. 

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Skylar Tibbits Says Materials Science Will Make Our World Less Digital—and More Wondrous

Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution is the designer and MIT Self-Assembly Lab Director’s latest investigation into how new materials research will impact design.

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Can Indigenous Technology Point the Way to a More Sustainable Future?

A new book proposes that traditional ecological knowledge could provide a model for sustainable and resilient infrastructures.