This exceptionally smart, friendly and well-designed volume makes the case for design as a tool to solve some of the world’s biggest social problems in beautiful, sustainable and engaging ways.

Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and greater good.

The Center for Land Use Interpretation’s aim is to increase and diffuse information about how the nation’s lands are apportioned, utilized and perceived.

Edited by Architecture for Humanity, Design Like You Give a Damn is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives.

In Chasing the Perfect writer/designer Natalia Ilyin delivers her astute, incisive, and humorous observations on design and the world it has molded.

Loved, hated, revered, scorned, real, imagined: this is Los Angeles. Looking at Los Angeles is a fascinating journey into the center of the city’s heart and soul.

Includes photographs by: Robert Adams, John Baldessari, William Claxton, William Eggleston, Grant Mudford, Catherine Opie, Stephen Shore, Julius Schulman, Andy Warhol, Garry Winogrand, and many others.

What makes us love our things? Why do we attach certain sentiments to certain items? How is it that sometimes objects can tell stories more eloquently than people? These are questions explored and answered in The Uncommon Life of Common Objects.

The Montreal-born photographer has made haunting studies of bombed-out buildings in Beirut, decaying New York tenements, Versailles rooms in dusty disarray, Brasilia’s paean to spare ’50s modernism, and, most recently, the abandoned, contaminated cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat. Taken together, they add to his ongoing project: the interpretation of the interrupted urban landscape.