Publications The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies

Books

• Urban Commons Research Collective (2022) Urban Commons Handbook. dpr-barcelona, Barcelona (De Carli, B. co-author)

• Mitchell, M and Tang, B (2017). Loose Fit City: The Contribution of Bottom-Up Architecture to Urban Design and Planning. Routledge, New York.

• Mitchell, M (2013). The Architecture of Three Freetown Neighbourhoods: documenting changing city topographies 2008-2013. Edited by Bo Tang and Shamoon Patwari. ASD Projects, London.

• Mitchell, M (2010). Learning from Delhi: Dispersed Initiatives in Changing Urban Landscapes. Edited by Bo Tang and Shamoon Patwari. Ashgate, Surrey.

• Mitchell, M (2010). Rebuilding Community in Kosovo. Centre for Alternative Technology, Powys. 

• Mitchell, M (2010). The Lemonade Stand: Exploring the Unfamiliar by Building Large-scale Models. Centre for Alternative Technology, Powys.

• Bevan, A and Mitchell, M (1992). Culture, Cash and Housing: Community and tradition in low-income building. ITDG Publishing, Bradford.

Book chapters

• De Carli, B (2018). Micro-resilience and justice in São Paulo. In: Architecture and resilience: Interdisciplinary dialogues. Routledge, London.

• Frediani, A A, De Carli, B, Barbosa, B R, Comaru, F, & Moretti, R (2018). São Paulo: A pedagogy of confrontation. Informal building occupations in São Paulo’s central neighbourhoods. In R. Rocco, & J. van Ballegooijen (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanisation. Abingdon: Routledge.

Articles

• De Carli, B and Frediani, A A (2021). Situated perspectives on the city: A reflection on scaling participation through design. Environment and Urbanization, 33(2).

• Mitchell, M and Roca Iglesias, A (2019). Urban agriculture in Kathmandu as a catalyst for the civic inclusion of migrants and the making of a greener city. Frontiers of Architectural Research. (In Press)

• Ahmed, N (2018) Proof of ecocide: towards a forensic practice for the proposed international crime against the environment. Archaeological and Environmental Forensic Science, 1(2). pp. 139–147.

• Mitchell, M (2018). The forest and the city: interpretative mapping as an aid to urban practice in sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Urban Design, 23(4). pp. 558-580.  

• De Carli, B (2016). Micro-resilience and justice: Co-producing narratives of change. Building Research and Information, 44(7). pp. 775-788.

• De Carli, B and Frediani, A A (2016). Insurgent regeneration: Spatial practices of citizenship in the rehabilitation of inner-city São Paulo. GeoHumanities, 2(2). pp. 331-353

• Mitchell, M and Tang, B (2016). Live projects : innovating in the present. Brookes eJournal of Learning and Teaching, 8(1). 

• De Carli, B, Frediani, A A, Barbosa, B, Comaru, F and Moretti, R (2015). Regeneration through the ‘Pedagogy of Confrontation’: Exploring the critical spatial practices of social movements in inner-city São Paulo as avenues for urban renewal. Dearq, 16. pp. 146-161.

• Mitchell, M and Tang, B (2015). Live Projects as Research: Tools of Practice Research in Making Architecture. In: Creative Practice Conference 2015: Making Research Researching Making, 10-12 September 2015, Arkitektskolen Aarhus, Denmark.

• Tang, B (2014). Towards a new architectural identity for Freetown : setting up the first free school of architecture in Sierra Leone. Edge Condition, 4. pp. 28-35.

• Tang, B (2014). Negotiating shared spaces in informal peri-urban settlements in India : the role of amenity buildings and the effect of the post-hoc introduction of infrastructure towards the creation of common places. Planum: the Journal of Urbanism, 2(29). pp. 28-49.

Practice research portfolios

• De Carli, B (2020) Change by Design: Imagining Equitable Cities, AAD Practice Research Portfolios, London Metropolitan University.

Books

• Moxon, S (2012). Sustainability in Interior Design Laurence King Publishing, London.

Book chapters

• Moxon, S (2023). "Exploring the Urban Jungle: making space for wildness in cities.” In: (eds. Kokkiou and Malakasioti) Beauty and Monstrosity. Routledge, London

• Moxon, S (2022). "'Rewild My Street': a model for biodiverse, community-led urban redevelopment.” In: (eds. McVicar, M et al) Generosity and Architecture. Routledge, London.

• Clossick, J (2022). "A Place for Participation on the Old Kent Road." In: (eds. McVicar, M et al) Generosity and Architecture. Routledge, London.

• Clossick, J and Colburn, B (2021) "Individual Autonomy and Urban Depth." In: (eds. P Lewis, S Costa Santos and L. Holm) Architecture and Collective Life. Routledge, London.

Articles

• Moxon, S (2021) Beauty and the beast: confronting contrasting perceptions of nature through design. The Urban Transcripts Journal, 4(1).

• Webb, J and Moxon, S (2021) A study protocol to understand urban rewilding behaviour in relation to adaptations to private gardens. Cities & Health.

• Moxon, S (2019) Drawing on nature: a vision of an urban residential street adapted for biodiversity. City, Territory and Architecture, 6.

Practice research portfolios

• Clossick, J and Brearley, M (2020) Advocating Industry in London: Audit, Reveal and Promote, AAD Practice Research Portfolios, London Metropolitan University.

• Clossick, J and Brearley, M (2020) Promoting Industry in Brussels: A Good City Has Industry, AAD Practice Research Portfolios, London Metropolitan University.

Books

• Temple, N, Piotrowski, A, and Heredia, J M, eds. (2020) The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture. Routledge, London.

• Temple, N (2020). Architecture and the Language Debate: Artistic and Linguistic Exchanges in Early Modern Italy. Routledge, London.

• Frost, C, Browne, J and Lucas, R, eds. (2019) Architecture, Festival and the City. Routledge, London.

• Temple, N, Hendrix, J and Frost, C (2014). Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral: tracing relationships between Medieval concepts of order and built form. Ashgate, Surrey. 

Book chapters

• Barac, M, King, J, Moreira, P, and Silva, E (2022) “Critical Conversation”. In (ed. Moreira, P): Critical Neighbourhoods: The Architecture of Contested Communities. Park Books, Zurich.

• Temple, N (2021) “Lorenzo Ghiberti and Contested Views of Perspectiva in Renaissance Concepts of Space”. In: Micrologus: Nature, Sciences and Mediaeval Societies, XXIX – Arabic and Latin Theory of Perspective. Edizioni del Galluzzo, Florence. 

• Frost, C (2019). "Architects, architecture and the city: some themes on the continuity of classical ideas relating to the Latin Middle Ages." In: The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture. Routledge Handbooks. Routledge, Oxford.

• Temple, N and Tracada, E (2019). (Re)invoking humanism in modernity: architecture and spectacle in Fascist Italy. In: The Routledge handbook on the reception of classical architecture. Routledge, London.

• Barac, M (2018). "Technologies of Belonging: Object Relations in the Architecture of Reconstruction." In: Building, Owning and Belonging: From Assisting Owner-driven Housing Reconstruction to Co-production in Sri Lanka, India and Beyond. European Union Publications and UNHabitat, Geneva.

• Temple, N (2018). Festa della Chinea: tradition and the 'exotic' in Roman festival design - Italy. In: Architecture, festival and the city. AHRA: critical studies in architectural humanities. Routledge, London.

• Fennell, S, Royo-Olid, J, and Barac, M (2018). "Tracking the Transition From ‘Basic Needs’ to ‘Capabilities’ for Human-Centred Development: The Role of Housing in Urban Inclusion." In: New Frontiers of the Capability Approach. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

• Temple, N (2016). Envisioning geometry: architecture in the grip of perspective. In: Visioning technologies: the architectures of sight. Routledge, London.

• Barac, M (2015). "Changing Places: Navigating Urbanity in the Global South." In: Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture. Routledge, London

• Temple, N (2015). Unfinished architecture: urban continuity in the age of the complete. In: The material imagination: reveries on architecture and matter. Studies in architecture. Ashgate, Surrey.

• Temple, N (2015). Architecture as the receptacle of Mitsein. In: Intersections of space and ethos. Routledge research in architecture. Routledge, London.

• Barac, M (2014). "Spatial Misreading: South Africa's urban future seen from within a township shack." In: Reading the Architecture of the Underprivileged Classes. Routledge, London.

• Temple, N (2014). Rites of intent: the participatory dimension of the city. In: Cityscapes in history: creating the urban experience. Ashgate, Surrey.

• Temple, N (2014). Plotting the centre: Bramante’s drawings for the New St. Peter’s Basilica. In: Recto verso: redefining the sketchbook. Studies in architecture. Ashgate, Surrey.

Articles

• Frost, C (2016). Festival and tradition in contemporary Florence. Journal of Urban Culture Studies, 3(2). pp. 239-254.

• Barac, M (2011). Place Resists: Grounding African Urban Order in an Age of Global Change. Social Dynamics, 37(1). pp. 24-42. 

• Barac, M (2007). Transit Spaces: Thinking Urban Change in South Africa. Home Cultures. 4(2). pp. 145-174.

Practice research portfolios

• St John, P (2020) Island: British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, AAD Practice Research Portfolios. London Metropolitan University, London.

• St John, P (2020) Newport Street Gallery, AAD Practice Research Portfolios. London Metropolitan University, London.