Books by Nicholas de Monchaux
“This book is impressively illustrated with many speculative urban design projects by his students. These are visually stimulating and glamorous. However the book’s best content in my view is three key essays by Nicholas which give unprecedented biographical histories of Gordon Matta-Clark, Jane Jacobs and a data cities pioneer from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, named Howard Fisher.” Read more...
The best books on Future Cities
Davina Jackson, Architects & Architectural Historian
Interviews where books by Nicholas de Monchaux were recommended
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City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn
by William J. Mitchell -
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The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture: City, Technology and Society in the Information Age
by Federico Soriano, Fernando Porras, José Morales, Manuel Gausa, Vicente Guallart & Willy Müller -
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Cities In Civilization
by Peter Hall -
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The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers and the Future of Urban Life
by Carlo Ratti & Matthew Claudel -
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Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design and the Nature of Cities
by Nicholas de Monchaux
The best books on Future Cities, recommended by Davina Jackson
The best books on Future Cities, recommended by Davina Jackson
We are a city-dwelling species. Our urban existence creates both opportunities and challenges, as the recent pandemic has illustrated. One thing seems clear, however. Understanding the way we interact with our built environment is becoming an increasingly data-driven enterprise, as Davina Jackson argues compellingly in her book, Data Cities. Here, she shares the five books that best explain the technology behind the urban planning of the future.
