Housing and the City explores housing histories, theories, and projects in diverse  geographies. It presents a geographically dispersed history of the twentieth-century  modern housing project and its social diagram, juxtaposed with case studies from the  past and the present that suggest that we can live and work differently.    While the contributions are diverse in their theoretical approach and geographical  situation, their juxtaposition yields transversal connections in the conception  of the home and the city and highlights the diversity of architectural solutions in the  formation of housing and its communities. The collection also reveals architecture’s  contribution to the construction of the self and communities, the individual and the collective—as both urban spatial entities and socio-political concepts.    Housing and the City provides essential reading for students, academics, and practitioners interested in the history, theory, or current design of housing. At a  time when cities are witnessing new ways of working, changing social demographics,  increased geographical mobility, and mass migrations, as well as the pervasive threat  of the climate crisis—all trends exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic—Housing and  the City presents a historical and theoretical reflection on the question: what does it  mean to be at home in the city in the twenty-first century?

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