This vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the development of architectural practice and the progress in urban modernization. It is about islands

"This book is an inquiry into the space between the slowness of architecture and the speed of the city, between the skyline and the underground. It is a critica

This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it.

The two principal objectives of this book were (1) to identify promising materials technologies, design issues (both overall and for individual components), and