This book examines the emergence and evolution of the discipline of urban design as articulated through the work of Josep Lluis Sert (1902-1983), one of its most influential practitioners. Sert was noted for his city planning and urban development projects in Europe, South America, and the United States, and the master plans of

his later career were significant for their integration of natural landscape features into the urban building scheme.

With essays by leading scholars and a wide selection of archival materials, illustrations, plans, and maps, this book provides a timely look...

Josep Lluis Sert (1902-1983) was the last president of CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) and dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design from 1953 to 1969, where he founded the discipline of urban design. His writings offer a new view of his activities in architecture and urban planning, and provide the intellectual context for his own work as an architect, much of which is still controversial and often poorly understood. This book includes 16 essays dating from 1951 to 1977, ten of which are previously unpublished. The Writings of Josep Lluis Sert...

"O magnify the Lord with me" (Ps. 34:3). One effective way to closely examine and worth-ship God is to meditate on what the Scriptures specifically testify that "God is." As the Holy Spirit opens the God is statements of the Bible to us, we discover the fusion of the Trinity. In this eighth volume, Unveiling Three Sacrificial Self-sharers, we will see: 1. how Father, Son, and Spirit share all things with One Another, 2. how "all the fullness" of these things were shared with the Son Jesus as a Man, and 3. in this God-Man, the Triune-God share all things with us human beings who have bought...

"O magnify the Lord with me" (Ps. 34:3). One effective way to closely examine and worth-ship God is to meditate on what the Scriptures testify that God is. As the Holy Spirit opens the God is statements of the Bible to us, we discover the fusion of the Trinity. In this ninth volume, God Magnified: Abiding in the Lord of Hosts, we will see that Father, Son, and Spirit are three hospitable Self-sharers Who desire to include you and me in Their own relational fusion and inter-personal oneness: "that they may also be in Us...that they may be one, just as We are one" (John 17:21-22). As a Host,...

This comprehensive new survey traces the global history of urbanism and urban design from the industrial revolution to the present.