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URBAN STUDIES AND THEORY

PUBLISHER
Spector Books

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8 x 11 in. / 340 pgs / 540 color.

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2021 p. 140   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783959054171 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CAD $49.00

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In stock

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Preview our FALL 2026 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
  

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Living the City

Of Cities, People and Stories

Text by Lukas Feireiss, Tatjana Schneider, TheGreenEyl.

Living the City

On the personal narratives that exist alongside architecture

Cities are full of stories—running in parallel, contradictory, overlapping and inseparably linked. Such stories are told in Living the City, referencing various projects from architecture, art and urban planning.

The book aims to show processes and possibilities for action in cities based on more than 50 projects from all over Europe. The publication first looks at urbanites before expanding into emotionally and poetically charged stories that consider basic activities such as loving, living, moving, working, learning, playing, dreaming, and participating in the city. The book is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the former airport in Tempelhof, Berlin.

Contributors include: Assemble, ateliermob, Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine, Civic Architects, Crimson Historians and Urbanists, Eutropian, Larissa Fassler, Jeppe Hein, Thomas Hirschhorn, Lacaton & Vassal, No Shade, Olalekan Jeyifous, Ahmet Ögüt, Planbude, raumlaborberlin, Rotor DC, The Black Archives, White Arkitekter and Zones Urbaines Sensibles.


Featured image is reproduced from ‘Living the City'.

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

John Hill

Presenting the 50-plus projects across eight chapters, each one prefaced by puzzle-like collages akin to the cover; these images illustrate the overlapping and contesting nature of doing projects in European cities. And although the projects follow one after the other, the density of words and images reads like a rapid-fire presentation of ideas focused on, as the title alludes, living in cities.

Living the City

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On Architecture and Construction

ON ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

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ISBN: 9783775764018
USD $24.00
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Pub Date: 2/16/2027
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The Transformation of Great European Cities

THE TRANSFORMATION OF GREAT EUROPEAN CITIES

nai010 publishers

ISBN: 9789465490076
USD $39.95
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Pub Date: 12/1/2026
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Building with what Remains

BUILDING WITH WHAT REMAINS

nai010 publishers

ISBN: 9789462089969
USD $29.95
| CAD $44.95

Pub Date: 2/9/2027
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By Women for Better Living

BY WOMEN FOR BETTER LIVING

nai010 publishers

ISBN: 9789462089921
USD $49.95
| CAD $75.95

Pub Date: 2/9/2027
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Through Bodies and Buildings

THROUGH BODIES AND BUILDINGS

Set Margins’ publications

ISBN: 9789083657554
USD $29.95
| CAD $44.95

Pub Date: 11/3/2026
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The Activist City

THE ACTIVIST CITY

nai010 publishers

ISBN: 9789462089853
USD $34.95
| CAD $52.95

Pub Date: 11/17/2026
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Models of Architecture in Archaeology

MODELS OF ARCHITECTURE IN ARCHAEOLOGY

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775763646
USD $24.00
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Pub Date: 11/24/2026
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Architects with Attitudes

ARCHITECTS WITH ATTITUDES

nai010 publishers

ISBN: 9789462086807
USD $45.00
| CAD $68

Pub Date: 2/9/2027
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(Hidden) Narratives of Spatial Resistance

(HIDDEN) NARRATIVES OF SPATIAL RESISTANCE

nai010 publishers

ISBN: 9789465490045
USD $39.95
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Pub Date: 2/9/2027
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Adolf Loos: Ruminations and Revisions

ADOLF LOOS: RUMINATIONS AND REVISIONS

KANT

ISBN: 9788074374661
USD $25.00
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Pub Date: 9/29/2026
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Degree Zero in Architecture

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ISBN: 9783959059053
USD $40.00
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Pub Date: 9/1/2026
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On Behalf of the Environment: Pedagogies of Unrest

ON BEHALF OF THE ENVIRONMENT: PEDAGOGIES OF UNREST

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ISBN: 9783959059183
USD $15.00
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Pub Date: 8/25/2026
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