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So many books address how to live a good life. This one is about where. Immersing readers in locations from beach huts to modern office layouts, from the backyard where we once played to the college dorm where we forged lifelong bonds, behavioral scientist Leidy Klotz illuminates how our physical environment determines our habits, our relationships, and even who we are. And how consciously connecting with our physical spaces can increase our mental wellness and combat screen fatigue.

From an acclaimed architect and investigator, a devastating, meticulous accounting of Israel’s destruction of Gaza and crimes against its people Eyal Weizman is one of the world’s leading experts on the relationship between violence, conflict, and the built and natural environment. As...

Brought to you by Penguin. The poet John Betjeman coined the phrase ‘church crawling’ to describe his days out visiting churches. In the spirit of Betjeman, Morley’s book captures the magical experience of poking around a deserted rural church only to see it transform – through her...

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'A thoughtful, open-hearted, deeply reported book about what we need to live. In How To Build A City, Bennett roams the world in search of answers to some of the most profound questions of our present and our future' - CAL FLYN A moveable city in the Arctic Circle. Tower blocks tackling...

Commercial real estate (retail and office) represents a $7 trillion asset class that is slow to change and currently under increasing pressure. What are the effects of accelerating technology and changing consumer behavior on real estate? Work Shop explores the growth of retail, fueled by smartphones and apps, in the post-pandemic world. Whether you are a building owner or decision maker, service provider to the industry, or engaged participant, this audiobook will provide history, context, and ideas for commercial real estate to evolve and thrive in the conceptual age.

From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, Religion for Atheists and The School of Life The Architecture of Happiness explores the fascinating hidden links between the buildings we live in and our long-term wellbeing...

The audiobook: Venice: The Anthology Guide is the perennially fresh classic travel guide to the city. It is unlike any other guide, since it conducts visitors around Venice using the observations and opinions of famous writers and art historians to enlighten them.

An old farmer boasts that he has used the same ax his whole life -- he's only had to replace the handle three times and the head twice. In an eclectic, insightful meditation on the powerful impulse to preserve and restore, Howard Mansfield explores the myriad ways in which we attempt to reconnect with and recover the past -- to use the same ax twice.

Landscape designer and historian Wade Graham follows the acclaimed American Eden with a lively, accessible cultural history of modern cities—from suburbs, downtown districts, and exurban sprawl, to shopping malls and “sustainable” developments—seen through the lens of planning, design...

No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.” During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Venice was celebrated as a model republic in an age of monarchs. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became famous for its freewheeling lifestyle characterized by courtesans, casinos, and Carnival.

Shop Class as Soulcraft meets A Place of My Own in this lyrical meditation of a woodworker steadfastly repairing a historic home. Old houses share their secrets only if they survive. Trading the corporate ladder for a stepladder, Lee McColgan commits to preserving the ramshackle Loring House...

There is a better way to live. Humans should have free time, good food, affordable shelter, time in nature, space to think, and living systems that help people thrive while healing the land. Welcome to Acorn Land Labs. We fuse permaculture, off-grid systems, local lifestyles, and simple living into a fresh way to live well. Join us as we reinvent the world around us into something healthy and good.

“Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white.” — James Wolcott, Vanity Fair “An essential book . . . a page-turner. Blume combines...

Mazes and Labyrinths is a look into the origin and mystery of mazes. From ancient stone carvings, Minoan palaces to today's hedge-maze, Matthews chronicles the history of the maze. With devoted scholarship to "the lure of the labyrinth," W. H. Matthews has composed an exhaustive history of mazes and labyrinths from antiquity to the present.

Start living in the home of your dreams today! This book will show you how to design and live in an accessible, safe, and independent dream home for the rest of your life. With this book, you'll unlock the secrets to age-in-place with ease, and have the tools to create a home that is perfect for you and your loved ones.

What would the city of the future look like if we tried to build a better life from the ground up? And would anyone want to live there? Here, Des Fitzgerald takes us on an urgent, unforgettable journey into the future of urban life, from shimmering edifices in the Arizona desert to forest-bathing in Japan, and from rats in mazes to neuroscientific studies of the effects of our surroundings. Along the way, he reveals the deep-lying and often problematic roots of today's green city movement, and offers an argument for celebrating our cities as they are.

Find inspiration in this unique, witty guide on how to turn your house into a home that will have your friends asking: “Who is your designer?!” When you look around your home, are you proud of what you see? Or are your thoughts more along the lines of, “Who lives here?” or, “Where did all of this stuff come from? Do we even use half this junk?” Let’s face it – over the last few years, the world has changed a lot, and because of this, so has the way we use our homes.

In this beautiful audiobook, the authors and creators of the award-winning blog All Up In My Space, Robyn Donaldson and Emma Hopkinson, use emotion as the starting point for every room to reveal achievable and fabulous ways of adding style and flair to your home so that you can create your ideal emotional experience in each space and make it look incredible too. Each chapter will take you on a tour to discover how you want each space in your home to feel and work for you as Robyn and Emma share their abundance of knowledge on home décor to help you figure out how to create a stylish home.