List of FiguresIntroductionChapter 1: Spatial Heterogeneity, Diversity and Difference After Modernist PlanningRobert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown - Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter -Collage City Kenneth Frampton - Modern Architecture: A Critical HistoryChapter 2: Urbanism and Models of Design ComplexityChristopher Alexander - "The City is Not a Tree"Manuel De Landa - A Thousand Years of Nonlinear HistoryJeffrey Kipnis - Folding in ArchitectureStan Allen - Architecture After GeometryPeter Eisenman - Diagram DiariesSanford Kwinter -Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture. Chapter 3: Intensities, Flows, Connectivity, and Networked UrbanismFrei Otto - Occupying and Connecting: Thoughts on Territories and Spheres of Influence with Particular Reference to Human SettlementMichael Weinstock - The Architecture of Emergence: The Evolution of Form in Nature and CivilisationManuel Castells - The Rise of the Network Society: The Information Age: Economy, Society, and CultureJonathan D. Solomon - Shaping the City: Studies in History, Theory and Urban DesignMichael Kubo, Farshid Moussavi, and Alejandro Zaera Polo - The Yokohama ProjectChapter 4: Density, the Compact City and Metropolitan CultureRichard Rogers - Cities for a Small Planet Rem Koolhaas - "The Future's Past"Winy Maas - “Datascape: The Final Extravaganza”Chapter 5: Ecology, Resilience, and Green InfrastructureAnne Whiston Spirn - The Granite GardenCharles Waldheim - The Landscape Urbanism ReaderKongjian Yu - "Beautiful Big Feet: Toward a New Landscape Aesthetic"Watson, J., H. Abukhodair, N. A. Naeema Ali, A. Robertson, H. Issaoui, and C. Sun - "Design by Radical Indigenism: Equitable Underwater & Intertidal Technologies of the Global South"Chapter 6: Health, Equity, and Liveable CitiesJan Gehl - Life Between Buildings: Using Public SpaceNicole Kalms - She CityWalter Hood and Grace Mitchell Tada - Black Landscapes MatterChapter 7: Emergent, Tactical, and Informal UrbanismAnanya Roy - "Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning" Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner - "Rules of Engagement: Caracas and the Informal City"Alejandro Aravena - "Elemental: A Do Tank"Mike Lydon and Anthony Garcia - Tactical UrbanismChapter 8: Evolutionary, Computational, and Parametric UrbanismGordon Pask - “The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics”John Frazer - An Evolutionary ArchitectureTom Verebes - Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-first CenturyPatrik Schumacher - The Autopoiesis of Architecture: A New Agenda for ArchitectureBenjamin H. Bratton - "Parametricist Architecture Would Be a Good Idea"Michael Batty - Cities and Complexity: Understanding Cities with Cellular Automata, Agent-Based Models, and FractalsChapter 9: Virtuality, Extended Realities, and the MetaverseWilliam J. Mitchell - Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked CityCarlo Ratti and Matthew Claudel - The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban LifeAndrea Moneta - "Architecture, Heritage, and the Metaverse"Chapter 10: Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things, and Technological DeterminismAreti Markopoulou - Learning Cities: Collective Intelligence in Urban DesignNeil Leach - Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for ArchitectsMatias del Campo - Neural Architecture: Design and Artificial IntelligenceKate Crawford - Atlas of AI: Power, Politics and the Planetary Costs of Artificial IntelligenceBibliographyIndex

This reader brings coherence, a sense of continuity, and contemporary context to a particularly dense and conceptually challenging period of urban theory. It is an invaluable resource that balances summary, insight and original texts with exceptional clarity and finesse–I wish I’d had it to hand as a student.