WINNER Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award 2025, Society of Architectural Historians WINNER Historians of British Art Book Award 2025 for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800-1960 Small Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes an…
Cities are more than concrete and steel infrastructure. But modern urban theory does not have the language to describe and debate the vital component of urban life that is lived on the streets of cities and towns. Swati Chattopadhyay has written a nuanced argument for a new vocabulary of the city in Unlearning the City, proposing a way of analyzing the materiality of the urban that captures the…