Places Books²

Places Books, published by Princeton University Press in association with Places Journal, presents smart, lively titles on architecture, landscape, and urbanism. Featuring the work of emerging and established scholars alike, Places Books offers readers a range of the best contemporary writing on the built environment.

A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences Shannon Mattern
Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know...
Where Are the Women Architects? Despina Stratigakos
For a century and a half, women have been proving their passion and talent for building and, in recent decades, their enrollment in architecture schools has soared. Yet the number of women working as architects remains stubbornly low...