In 'Housing Atlas', beautifully drawn plans, sections and elevations illustrate nearly a hundred of the most important European housing schemes of the 20th century, a period when architects addressed the multiple challenges of modern urban living and responded with an array of innovative solutions. Today, architects are revisiting these designs as they seek answers to the current housing crisis.

Chronologically ordered, this is an essential survey of these key housing projects, produced by a pan-European team of leading scholars. Complete with contextual essays, the studies each include a history and analysis of the projects and the drawings are presented in a way that makes them readily comparable.@en

In recent decades, the international debate on suburban sprawl and peri-urban growth in European cities has intensified. The decentralization of industrial, tertiary and residential activities, as well as the proliferation of road infrastructures have given rise to the fragmentation of the agricultural fabric with the formation of mixed-use, empty or residual spaces. On the other hand, the growing interest in the cultural, ecological and landscape values ​​of peri-urban landscapes is evident.@en