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The University Press Group Architecture University of California Press Columbia University Press Princeton University Press Complete Catalogue Spring 2021 Catalogue Contents Page University of California Press New Titles ............................................... 1 The University of California Press strives to drive progressive change by seeking out and Best of Backlist.................................... 4 cultivating the brightest minds and giving them voice, reach, and impact. We believe that scholarship is a powerful tool for fostering a deeper understanding of our world and Columbia Books on Architecture changing how people think, plan, and govern. The work of addressing society’s core and the City .......................................... 9 challenges—whether they be persistent inequality, a failing education system, or global climate change—can be accelerated when scholarship assumes its role as an agent of Lincoln Institute of Land Policy . 15 engagement and democracy. Backlist .................................................. 16 ucpress.edu Index ....................................................... 19 How to order ...................................... 23 Columbia University Press Columbia University Press seeks to enhance Columbia University’s educational and research mission by publishing outstanding original works by scholars and other intellectuals that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. The Press also reflects the importance of its location in New York City in its publishing programs. Through book, reference, electronic publishing, and distribution services, the Press broadens the university’s international reputation. cup.columbia.edu Princeton University Press Princeton University Press brings scholarly ideas to the world. We publish peer-reviewed books that connect authors and readers across spheres of knowledge to advance and enrich the global conversation. We embrace the highest standards of scholarship, inclusivity, and diversity in our publishing. In keeping with Princeton University’s commitment to serve the nation and the world, we publish for scholars, students, and engaged readers everywhere. press.princeton.edu The University Press Group (UPG) is jointly owned by the University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton and is responsible for the sales of their books in the UK and Ireland, Europe, The Middle East and Africa. upguk.com A Year Without a Winter Ecology in Urban Design and Dehlia Hannah Planning Today, weather extremes brought about by anthropogenic climate change pose The Evolution of An Idea relentless cognitive and imaginative challenges. Beyond news media, what are the cultural registers of this phenomenon? How can artistic and literary engagements Forster Ndubisi with destabilizing natural patterns summon new planetary imaginaries— reorienting perspectives on humanity’s position within the environment? This lavishly illustrated book surveys connections between ecology and urban planning and design from theoretical, literary, and historic perspectives. A Year Without a Winter brings together science fiction, history, visual art, and Academics, students, and practitioners of urban planning and design will see how exploration. Inspired by the literary ‘dare’ that would give birth to Mary Shelley’s ecological thinking has evolved since the fifth century BCE and how it can be Frankenstein amidst the aftermath of a massive volcanic eruption, and today, by used to create sustainable, resilient, and beautiful places today. Succinct chapter the utopian architecture of Paolo Soleri and the Arizona desert, expeditions to summaries help readers track this progression. Antarctica and Indonesia, this collection reframes the relationship among climate, crisis, and creation. The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, on the Indonesian Ecology in Urban Design and Planning: The Evolution of an Idea demonstrates island of Sumbawa, enveloped the globe in a cloud of ash, causing a climate crisis. the increasingly urgent need to balance human use with ecological concerns in By 1816, remembered as the ‘year without a summer,’ the northern hemisphere our built environments. Places that support life systems for people and other was plunged into cold and darkness. Amidst unseasonal frosts, violent organisms, rural and urban landscapes are degrading in the face of extreme thunderstorms, and a general atmosphere of horror, Shelley began a work of climate change, rising sea levels, resource depletion, species extinction, science fiction that continues to shape attitudes to emerging science, technology, accelerated consumption, and increased urbanization. This decline persists and environmental futures. Two hundred years later, in 2016, the hottest year on despite worldwide laws protecting the environment and natural resources, and historical record, four renowned science fiction authors were invited to the progress in scientific knowledge and technology. Human impacts on landscapes experimental town of Arcosanti, Paolo Soleri’s prototype for arcology, to respond are now more profound and complex, making solutions increasingly difficult to to our present crisis. A Year Without a Winter presents their stories alongside achieve. critical essays, extracts from Shelley’s masterpiece, and dispatches from expeditions to extreme geographies. Broad and ambitious in scope, this book is a Forster Ndubisi maintains that we can learn from history, reinterpreted within collective thought experiment retracing an inverted path through narrative the context of changing societal concerns, as guidance for the future. The book extremes. concludes with a framework for increasing sustainability and resilience despite unprecedented challenges, proposing place-based ecological urbanism as a way to A Year Without a Winter is edited by Dehlia Hannah in collaboration with synthesize ecological thinking into design and planning practice in the science fiction editors Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin. The book Anthropocene era. includes a suite of commissioned stories by Tobias Buckell, Nancy Kress, Nnedi Okorafor, and Vandana Singh; essays by Dehlia Hannah, Gillen D’Arcy Wood, James Graham, Hilairy Hartnett, David Higgins, Nadim Samman, and Pablo Suarez; artwork by Julian Charrière and Karolina Sobecka; and literary excerpts by Mary Shelley and Lord Byron. 9781941332382 9781558444096 $23.00 | £18.99 $60.00 | £50.00 Paperback Paperback 284 pages | 165.1mm : 228.6mm 504 pages | 177.8mm : 254mm 2019 2021 Architecture / Criticism Architecture / Planning Columbia Books on Architecture and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy City 1 A Moving Border Superpowers of Scale Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change Andres Jaque Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual, Andrea The objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material—they are Bagnato complex entities that unfold their potential agencies (whether political, social, or environmental) in equally complex ways. Exploring these forms of architectural Italy’s northern border follows the watershed that separates the drainage basins of agency has in recent years been a central aspect of the work of Andrés Jaque and Northern and Southern Europe. Running mostly at high altitudes, it crosses the Office for Political Innovation, who, in addition to their built works, pursue a snowfields and perennial glaciers—all of which are now melting as a result of research practice through the many other media of architectural production. anthropogenic climate change. As the watershed shifts so does the border, Their projects are reactive, intervening on what already exists to demonstrate how contradicting its representations on official maps. Italy, Austria, and Switzerland design, politics, and criticality operate across different scales and at the have consequently introduced the novel legal concept of a “moving border,” one intersection of multiple realities. Jaque’s performances, videos, and installations— that acknowledges the volatility of geographical features once thought to be and this book, which collects a range of recent research projects—bring new stable. subjects into the fold of architecture, focusing on alternative actors, distributions of power and representation, and the sociocultural effects of architecture. These A Moving Border: Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change builds upon the episodes address ideas like genetic manipulation, the necessary requeering of Italian Limes project by Studio Folder, which was devised in 2014 to survey the dequeered spaces of online interaction, and the selling of modern architectural fluctuations of the boundary line across the Alps in real time. The book charts the comforts in order to subvert the field from within and to contest capitalism's effects of climate change on geopolitical understandings of border and the flattening-out of public life. cartographic methods used to represent them. Locating the Italian condition alongside a longer political history of boundary making, the book brings together Rather than propose alternative-from-scratch futuristic or idealized realities, critical essays, visualizations, and unpublished documents from state archives. By Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation claim that reality is produced at the examining the nexus of nationalism and cartography, A Moving Border details intersection of things like porn, interior design, maintenance, and the territorial how borders are both material and imagined, and the ways global warming distribution of toxicity. Documenting