INTRODUCTION -- URBAN BLOCK SHAPERS -- Precedents: From Plan Zuid to the Meander -- Contemporary Cases: Building in Barcelona and Los Angeles -- Convergences and Contexts -- HOUSING AND LANDSCAPES -- Precedents: From Active Mergers to Objects of Contemplation -- Contemporary Cases: Houses and New Grounds -- Trends, Consistencies, and Contexts -- SUPERBLOCK CONFIGURATIONS -- Precedents: From Mass Housing to a New Urban Lifestyle -- Contemporary Cases: Chinese Superblocks in Beijing -- Dimensional Issues, Strategies, and Domain Definitions -- TALL TOWERS -- Precedents: Early Beginnings, Mass Provision, and Dwelling Diversity -- Contemporary Cases: Expressions of Sustainability and Variation -- Balancing Dwelling and Conditions of Variation, Separation, and Resilience -- BIG BUILDINGS -- Precedents: From Unités to Sprawling Complexes and Green Buildings -- Contemporary Cases: Big Buildings in Urban Circumstances\ -- Community and Balances Among Residential and Other Factors -- INFRASTRUCTURAL ENGAGEMENTS -- Precedents: Direct Engagements and Reifications -- Contemporary Cases: Re-occupation of Urban Sites -- Typal Independence, Reciprocity, and Contextual Influence -- INDIGENOUS REINTERPRETATIONS -- Precedents: Codes, Associations, and Reproductions -- Contemporary Cases: References to the Past in Beijing and Shanghai -- Contextual Engagements and Differences Between Form and Figure -- INFILL AND PUNTAL INTERVENTIONS -- Precedents: Infills, Unit Ensembles, and Intervention Processes -- Contemporary Cases: Single Houses and Ensembles of Units -- Animation, Completion, Contradistinction, and Other Outcomes -- HOUSING SPECIAL POPULATIONS -- Precedents: Recent Social, Student, and Elderly Housing -- Contemporary Cases: From Slum Reparation to Co-op Life.

Flexibility, Accommodating Change, and Special Programming -- A TURNING POINT -- Constants and Trends -- Metrics and Measures -- Selected Projects and Contextual Connectivity -- Units, Types, and Use Mixes by Categories -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors, Acknowledgements, Credits, Colophon.