Books and magazines about urbanism, architecture, city culture and travel. I hope one day to write some notes of all of these and build a "knowledge garden". Message me if you would like to borrow any of these :) > *This is a work-in-progress!* It's just an info dump of titles now, eventually, I'll have pretty pictures and such. # Europe - The Alternative Guide to the London Boroughs: Hatherley - Borough-by-borough writing. - Smooth City, Boer - Really interesting read challenging the "sanitisation" of cities. - Arkitektur, Nr. 6 2014 - (in Swedish) A Swedish architecture magazine. Found in the back halls of a bookshop in Malmö, 2024. Pretty pictures and random projects - ESP (Esperanto) Culture, Issue 1 - An Experimental Jetset publication. Think it changed name at some point. - Glory, Issue 10 "Scotland" - Magazine about football culture - Ark Journal XI - Copenhagen-based design magazine. - Nytt Rom, Issue 97 - (in Norwegian) interiors magazine. - The Modernist, North 50 - Manchester-based architecture design magazine - Slanted 39, "Stockholm" - German biannual on design. Useful few pages of travel guide on Stockholm in the back! - The New Era 01 - Scandinavian interiors magazine. - The New Era 04 - Desired Landscapes 06 - Mini-magazine out of Athens. Some theory, some travel guide. - B magazine 88: Copenhagen - B magazine 43: Berlin - Englisch in Berlin: Hilal and Varatharajah - A book from an Instagram live conversation about the use of English as a prestige language in Berlin. - Brutalist Paris: Green, Wilson - Cereal Guide to Copenhagen - "Looking cool"-focused travel guide - Guide to New Architecture in Copenhagen - Published by the Danish Architecture Centre, mostly modern stuff. - LOST iN Frankfurt - They have a whole series of guides for cities all around the world. # North America > This section needs more! - Next New York: El Khafif and McDowell - Lots of essays and pretty pictures on New York City. - Los Angeles: the Architecture of Four Ecologies, Banham - Derided by academics in the 70s. [Read this too](https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/233589/reyner-banham-s-los-angeles-the-architecture-of-four-ecologies) - New York: city-pick: Reyes - A collection of quotes about New York City. # Asia - Monocle Guide to Tokyo 3 - Monocle Guide to Singapore 11 - Wallpaper* Guide to Osaka - Whole series of super colourful and compact city guides, not sure how out-of-date these have become though. - CITIx60 Tokyo - Creative-focused travel guide. - Sharing Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World: Mostafavi, Ota - Found this absolute tome in Readings Carlton. Lots of really interesting drawings in here! - Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore: No 271 (Jäggi, Malterre-Barthes) - Modern Architecture in Japan: Tafuri (Mostafavi editor) - Emergent Tokyo: Almazàn, Studiolab - A typology of patterns of neighbourhoods in Tokyo. - Tokyo Metabolising: Kitayama, Tsukamoto, Nishizawa - Found at the amazing Nanyodo Books. - d design travel 16 Kyoto - Travel guide located in Daikanyama T-SITE. Very limited parts in English. - d design travel 13 Fukuoka - The Passenger "Japan" - New magazine popping up around shelves in Aus. Half travel writing, half travel guide. - Takumen (??) - (in Japanese) Located somewhere in Japan years ago, exclusively about ramen but I can't read any of it. I dream of one day being able to find one of the bowls in here. - a+u 21:09 (612) Urban Science and New Design Tools - Some really cool urban data science stuff in here. - IDEA Magazine: 296-2003 "Books preposition graphic design" - Really old Japanese design magazine. - Ando: Jodidio - I have the small one, there's a big coffee-table version. I hope to tick off all of these buildings one day. # Australia - Monocle Guide to Sydney 13 - Monocle Guide to Melbourne 31 - Urban Choreography: Dovey, Adams, Jones - A history of the development of Central Melbourne - Keeping Up Appearances El Khouri - Found at a book fair in Pearl Beach, NSW. I can find very little about it online but it's incredibly interesting. It's a demographic study of Australia at the time of the Cronulla riots, challenging many of the claims that Australia (or Sydney) was "majority Anglo-Saxon", and basically asking what "Australian" means. - Killing Sydney: Farrelly - I really need to finish reading this. - Transit Life: Bissell - Essays focused on the life of commuters, mostly based in Greater Sydney and its regions. - Quarterly Essay 89 "The Wires that Bind", Griffith - Design Anthology, Issue 4, Australian edition - Day Trip Sydney - Cool little travel guide on bits of Sydney. # General urbanism - Superstructures: Experimental Jetset - A City is not a Computer: Mattern - Writing about over-"science"-ing cities. - B "The Neighbourhood" - There's a few others of these too. *The Home*, *The Shop*. Same folks as B Magazine. # Architecture and interiors - Apartamento 31 - Never Too Small: Chee, Beath, Price - Small footprint interiors, inspired by the amazing YouTube channel. - Twenty Houses by Twenty Architects, Pall Mall - Modern Architecture: Frampton - One day I will read this and resist the urge to get an architecture degree. - Massive, Expressive, Sculptural: Brutalism Now and Then, van Uffelen - Got this as a gift! I hope one day to tick off all of these buildings. - The Apartment House # Art & design - Dot-Font: Talking about Fonts: Berry - A bunch of blog posts, published. - Dot-Font: Talking about Design: Berry - B magazine 37: Tsutaya - B magazine 60: Monocle - B magazine 53: MUJI - B magazine 35: Helvetica - The Making of MONA - Graphic Design School - The Designer's Dictionary of Type: Adams - Working with Computer Type: Books, Magazines, Newsletters - How to...: Michael Bierut - The Elements of Typographic Style: Bringhurst - So incredibly detailed and wonderful. - The Layout Look Book - Thinking with Type: Lupton - Like Bringhurst but with more pictures. - The Design of Everyday Things: Norman - What's a [Norman door](https://99percentinvisible.org/article/norman-doors-dont-know-whether-push-pull-blame-design/)? - IKEA the Book, Bengtsson - Found this in a second-hand in Dulwich Hill. IKEA designs, most of which you can't buy anymore. # Other - Multilingualism: A Very Short Introduction, Maher (Oxford) - Finnish Lessons: Sahlberg - A book about the Finnish education system.