About Streets

Focusing on the street as a socio-spatial catalyst, this book fosters a comprehensive conversation on the past, present, and future of streets and public space. While 'the street' is commonly associated with urban form or the metropolitan context of social dynamics and design practices, this interdisciplinary anthology highlights that urban design challenges are global, multidimensional, and transcalar. This critical survey of the city collects a broad scope of practices and phenomena in urbanism, architecture, activism, and participatory design. Individual chapters examine the histories, theories, geographies, architecture, and design of streets offering essential reading for scholars, professionals, students, and enthusiasts of urbanism, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, planning, geography, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, economics, and the arts. Over 50 chapters, authored by an international and diverse group of leading academics, theorists, historians, and practitioners, expand the discourse on streets and public space.

Gregory Marinic, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning SAID and the Director of URBANIA, a grant-funded research lab speculating on metropolitan futures with current research focused on housing, urban design, urban morphology, and informal settlements. Marinic has published four books, most recently, the co-edited Informality and the City: Theories, Actions, and Interventions (Springer, 2022) and the co-authored Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America (Routledge, 2024). His research has been widely published in journals including Journal of Urbanism, International Journal of Architectural Research, Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, and AD Journal. His teaching and practice have been recognized with awards from the American Institute of Architects, the Seoul Metropolitan Government, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including the AIA New York Center for Architecture, AIA Philadelphia Center for Architecture, Seoul Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Estonian Architecture Museum, TSMD Turkish Architecture Center in Ankara, National Building Museum in Washington, DC and elsewhere. Prior to academia, Marinic worked in the New York and London offices of Rafael Viñoly Architects where he contributed to RIBA and AIA award-winning civic, academic, performing arts, residential, aviation, urban design, master planning, and international competition projects. Pablo Meninato, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Temple University Tyler School of Art and Architecture. An architect, architectural critic, and educator, Meninato has practiced and taught architecture and urbanism in Philadelphia, Buenos Aires, and Monterrey, Mexico. A native of Argentina, Meninato is a recipient of the 2024-2025 Fulbright US Scholar Award. Before joining Temple University, he taught at various academic institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Universidad de Monterrey, and Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires. He currently serves on the Philadelphia Chapter of the Board of the Society of Architectural Historians. His essays have been widely published in various journals, magazines, and books. Meninato is the author of Unexpected Affinities: The History of Type in the Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp (Routledge, 2018), a book that proposes a historical reassessment of the concept of architectural "type" and its impact on the design process. He is currently engaged in an ongoing research and publishing project examining how contemporary architects are developing unique interventions in informal settlements across Latin America. Outcomes of this project include the co-edited book Informality and the City: Theories, Actions, and Interventions (Springer, 2022) and the co-authored book Urban Labyrinths: Informal Settlements, Architecture, and Social Change in Latin America