The first book to link eugenics with urban planning and the built environment, this volume traces how the "science" of race improvement spread from medicine to architecture as Latin Americans pursued a utopian project of modernization.

How China's borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors. Since capturing the West Bank in 1967, Israel has overseen the construction of scores of settlements across the territory’s rocky hilltops. The settlements are part of a fierce political conflict. But they are not just hotly contested political ventures. They are also something more everyday: residential architectural projects. In the Land of the Patriarchsis an...