Architecture and urban studies

‘Minimum expectations’ for research income will be used as part of staff performance review

A masterly study of the building has been published more than 40 years after its author’s death

Protest sparked by suspension of highly respected architecture professor who refused to support relocation of the school

Architecture lecturer Stephen Games feels ‘vindicated’ after agreement

Book of the week: Beneath a bourgeois veneer is a secret history of defunct jobs and fascinating lives, says Paul White

Increase led by growth in number of international students

The proposed sale of London Metropolitan University’s Aldgate design school highlights some of the pros and cons of ‘one campus’ higher education institution, says Jack Grove

Scholar contends that civic universities were a ‘Renaissance nobody notices’

James Stevens Curl on an architect who designed some of the great Victorian buildings but was unjustly maligned

The history of a sanctuary where science meets art is an emotionally charged work, says Timothy Mowl

Danny Dorling sees how bricks and mortar became part of the arsenal with which the US fought the Cold War

UK maintains its strength in the arts while US loses ground

Art and architecture scholars make clear what we can still learn from history

Education and design consultant says institutions must bring their infrastructure up to date with modern forms of learning

A work of distinction offers fresh insights into the hedonism and hangovers, says Richard J. Williams

Firm’s scheme offers degree funding in exchange for students returning home to work in the country

Richard J. Williams is enlightened and amused by the acts and aesthetics of risk reduction in transit

University and College Union says proposals could mean a third of Wolverhampton's research professors lose their jobs

Richard J. Williams on an entertaining study that takes in Las Vegas, Jerusalem and the online worlds of Second Life

Richard Williams on Hugh Hefner’s attention to the enhancement of pleasure through erotic design

What goes up must also come down, finds Annmarie Adams

Architecture meets social experiment in a Modernist block of flats, Flora Samuel writes

Richard Williams on architectural criticism and how its narrowness affects our built landscape

Grace Lees-Maffei on the sights and sounds of the suburbs

Harriet Harriss on an age when ‘form followed fealty’ and politics triumphed over economics

Tim Hall takes a ride with the urban explorers obsessed with penetrating the half-built, derelict or hidden parts of our cities

Flora Samuel is impressed by a message of regeneration

James Stevens Curl on the importance of hand-drawing skills and appropriate use of classical language in designing modern buildings

Marian Duggan takes a tour of the US LGBT liberation movement

Sherry Lee Linkon on a ‘community of memory’ fighting for a place called home

Flora Samuel on a sociologist’s observations of everyday life in the Big Apple

Annmarie Adams on one man’s quest to find places where form meets libido

Annmarie Adams on the architecture of buildings with ‘controversial’ uses

Laurence Coupe celebrates efforts to rethink urban spaces to give them an ecological dimension

Ulrike Zitzlsperger on the changing nature of heritage and the consequent effects on national identities in European nations

Benson P. H. Lau on a study of Modern architect Le Corbusier’s religious thinking and architecture

Les Gofton ventures into the shadowy suburban world of competing cultures

Harriet Harriss discusses a paragon of joined-up thinking

Geoffrey Alderman on the social and economic benefits that an institution can bring to a locality

This survey of the work of an innovative practice leaves Flora Samuel wishing for about places, plans and politics

Senior RAE figures offer frank perspectives on the future of research funding. Zoe Corbyn reports

Researcher-dominated schools of architecture are being blamed for a generation who don't know how to make buildings stand up. Hannah Fearn reports

Journal editor calls for more respect and cash for interdisciplinary arts research. Zoe Corbyn reports