Vademecum: 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places book cover
Reference · 2020 · English

Vademecum: 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places

by Klaske Havik, Kris Pint, Svava Riesto

About this book

Edited by Klaske Havik, Kris Pint, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner, Vademecum gathers 77 concepts for thinking and writing about urban places. The entries draw connections among architecture, planning, literary studies and the experience of everyday environments.

Terms such as atmosphere, place attachment, street art, urban eating and landscape biography offer different ways to notice and describe a city. The compact reference format invites readers to move among entries rather than follow a single continuous argument. First published in 2020, the book is presented here in its original-page open-access edition issued with TU Delft in 2024.