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VOL. 23/NO. 1 FEBRUARY 2010
Table of Contents
PROFILE
Building Islamic Tradition
Abdel-Wahed El-Wakil has designed more than 15 mosques and many other traditional buildings that celebrate Islamic culture, earning him the 2009 Driehaus Prize. By Kim A. O'Connell
ROUNDTABLE
Sustainability in the Urban Context
Leading urbanists discuss why the urban environment is important to a sustainable
future and how it can be improved.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Decade's Most Important Book on Urban Architecture
The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and
Historic Preservation, by Steven W. Semes
Reviewed by Clem Labine
Architecture for People: A Primer for Post-Modern Americans
The Architecture of Community, by Leon Krier
Reviewed by Milton Grenfell
Cities Are Our Future
Urban Design for an Urban Century: Placemaking for People, by Lance Jay Brown,
FAIA, David Dixon, FAIA, and Oliver Gillham, AIA
Reviewed by Hadiya Strasberg
The Never-Ending Story
Unbuilding Cities: Obduracy in Urban Sociotechnical Change, by Anique Hommels,
and The Human City: King's Cross Central, by Roger Madelin and Demetri Porphyrios
Reviewed by Nicole V. Gagné
Award
2009 Student Drawing Awards
The 2009 Charles E. Peterson awards recognize students from several colleges.
THE FORUM
The Wake-Up Call of Climate Change
By Michael Mehaffy
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