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Although Christopher Alexander, who died this year on March 17, was officially an architect, the significance of his life lay in the challenge he posed to architecture. In a...

Utopia Drive: A Road Trip Through America’s Most Radical Ideaby erik reecefarrar, straus and giroux, 368 pages, $14.99 Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianismby chris jenningsrandom house, 512...

Eyes on the Streetby robert kanigelknopf, 496 pages, $35 Becoming Jane Jacobs by peter l. laurence university of pennsylvania, 376 pages, $34.95 Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview and Other...

Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks edited by charles e. beveridge, lauren meier, and irene mills johns hopkins, 448 pages, $74.95 The achievement of Frederick Law...

Imperial Gothic: Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840–70 by g. a. bremneryale, 364 pages, $95 Over the course of a few years in the...

Students in my history of architecture course are amused to discover that the final exam offers a choice of questions. Some are bone dry (“discuss the development of the...