This document provides summaries of 20 new books related to architecture, urban planning, and design. The books cover topics such as the history and geography of San Diego, urban growth challenges in different cities, sustainable development, infrastructure, and the works of influential architects. The summaries describe the content, focus, and key insights contained in each book.

1. APRIL 2013

2. NEW BOOKS

3. San Diego: An Introduction
to the Region
BY Philip R. Pryde
Reference to San Diego's
unique history, natural
features, and earth
science.

4. Metropolitan San Diego: How
Geography and Lifestyle Shape
a New Urban Environment
BY Larry R. Ford
A thorough and intelligent
portrait of one of America's
most multifaceted cities,
Metropolitan San Diego brings
to vibrant life the many niches,
both ecological and social, that
continue to make this region a
destination for visitors and a
beloved home to residents.

5. Sustainable Development
in San Diego-Tijuana:
Environmental, Social, and
Economic Implications of
Interdependence
BY M. J. Spalding

6. Infrastructural Urbanism:
Addressing the In-between
BY Thomas Hauck
This volume discusses
spatial design implications
of technical and transport
infrastructure.

7. Design with the Other
90%: Cities
BY Cynthia E. Smith
It looks at some of the
myriad challenges created
by accelerated urban
growth and presents
design solutions that
address the consequences.

8. Invented Edens: Techno-
Cities of the Twentieth
Century
BY Robert H. Kargon
Traces the arc of one form
of urban design, techno-
city: a planned city
developed in conjunction
with large industrial or
technological enterprises,
blending the technological
and the pastoral, the mill
town and the garden city.

9. Leverage: Strengthening
Neighborhoods through
Design
BY Beth Miller
A series of essays consider
the role of designers as
advocates and
policymakers, the future of
design activism, and how
the Collaborative has
contributed to design
excellence in Philadelphia
and beyond.

10. The Failure of Planning:
Permitting Sprawl in San
Diego Suburbs
BY Richard Hogan

11. San Diego Architecture
from Mission to Modern:
Guide to the Buildings,
Planning, People, and
Spaces That Shape the
Region
BY Dirk Sutro
This guidebook is geared
toward anyone who wants
to get out and see San
Diego’s best buildings.

12. No Nails, No Lumber: The
Bubble Houses of Wallace
Neff
BY Jeffery Head
No Nails, No Lumber
shows the beauty and
versatility of Neff 's design
in new and vintage
photography, previously
unpublished illustrations,
and archival material and
ephemera.

13. Architecture in India: Since
1990
BY Rahul Merhrotra
Each chapter introduces
exponents of distinct
genres of architectural
expression, examining the
work of more than 60
contemporary architects in
more than 500
photographs.

14. Homes, Issues + Processes
BY Faye Cheah
A monograph on the work
of Design Collective
Architects (DCA), a young
and vibrant architectural
practice based in Malaysia,
whose projects thrive on
the close collaboration
between architects,
interior designers and
landscape designers.

15. Kenzo Tange and the
Metabolist Movement:
Urban Utopias of Modern
Japan
BY Zhongjie Lin
This book focuses on the
Metabolists’ utopian
concept of the city and
investigates the design and
political implications of
their visionary planning in
the postwar society.

16. The Edifice Complex: How
the Rich and Powerful--
and Their Architects--
Shape the World
BY Deyan Sudjic
From the grandiose
projects of Stalin to the
"theme park" excess of
today’s presidential
libraries, go behind the
scenes of history’s great
manipulators of building
propaganda.

17. Design Like You Give a
Damn [2]: Building Change
from the Ground Up
BY Kate Stohr
The indispensable
handbook for anyone
committed to building a
more sustainable future.

18. Citizens of No Place: An
Architectural Graphic
Novel
BY Jimenez Lai
A collection of short
stories on architecture and
urbanism, graphically
represented using manga-
style storyboards.

19. Small Scale, Big Change:
New Architectures of
Social Engagement
BY Andres Lepik
Presents recently built or
under-construction works
in underserved
communities around the
globe by 11 architects and
firms.

20. Sketch Plan Build: World
Class Architects Show How
It's Done
BY Alejandro Bahamon
Focusing on the design
process of today's most
noteworthy architects,
Sketch Plan Build explores
the reasoning, resources,
and influences behind the
projects of today's most
recognized architects.

21. Designing for a Digital
World
BY Neil Leach
This volume brings
together some of the
world's leading voices
from digital theory,
technology and design to
address this question.

22. Eccentric Structures in
Architecture
BY Joseph Lim
This book presents studies
in architectural form
focusing on the
relationships between
force, form, and space to
develop structure.

23. Dwellings: The Vernacular
House Worldwide
BY Paul Oliver
It documents the form of
traditional buildings that
are self-built by their
owner-occupiers or built
by members of a
community, recording the
means of construction and
decoration of the house
across a spectrum of
different cultures.

24. Latin American Houses
BY Mercedes Daguerre
Focusing on one-family
houses that have been
built over the past decade,
this lively new title
explores the elegance and
innovation with which
today's Latin American
architects evolve their
modernist heritage.

25. Manuel de Sola-Morales: A
Matter of Things
BY Adriaan Geuze
This monograph unites his
oeuvre for the first time,
documenting it extensively
in word and image, with
particular attention to
larger and more important
projects and realizations of
his recent years.

26. In Favour of Public Space
BY Magda Angles
It presents a selection of
projects from former and
new winners and
theoretical texts from
Manuel de Sola-Morales,
Dietmar Steiner, Rafael
Moneo.

27. The City of To-morrow and
Its Planning
BY Le Corbusier
The great revolutionary
architect's probing analysis
of urban problems and
their origins, and his bold
solutions, which include
the "Voisin" scheme for
the center of Paris, and the
more developed scheme
for a "City of Three Million
Inhabitants."

28. Material Strategies:
Innovative Applications in
Architecture
BY Blaine Brownell
Chapters examine
historical precedents,
current opportunities, and
future environmental
challenges. Case studies
showcase pioneering
buildings from today's
most forward-thinking
architectural firms.

29. Housing Reclaimed:
Sustainable Homes for
Next to Nothing
BY Jessica Kellner
Examines how
technological advances,
design evolution, and out-
of-the-box thinking about
materials can help us meet
the challenge of building
affordable,
environmentally friendly,
and unique homes.