This study examines the different ways in which designers and communities throughout the world have searched for identity through design. It examines the debates about how design affects place-identity and explores the processes through which place identity is formed.

This study examines the different ways in which designers and communities throughout the world have searched for identity through design. From Malaysia to Mexico urban designers, architects and planners have developed ever more inventive approaches to the identity issue. The volume examines the debates about how design affects place-identity and explores the processes through which place identity is formed. There are international case studies offering a practical insight into the kinds of creative design approaches which can be applied to the development of place.

• Prague
• place, identity and nationhood
• Llubljana
• design for a common cause
• Mexico
• complexity of culture and landscape
• expressing the invisible
• London's underground between the wars
• building red Bologna
• Aldo Rossi
• a Perugian intervention
• building a responsive environment
• Fobney Street, Reading
• constructing Malaysian identity
• city and locality
• Boston's transformation