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'A corner of the USA that is forever Putney': Charleston is a masterpiece of urban give and takeJohn Locke's ideas about individual liberty and public order emerged from this ideal new town in South Carolina.
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Louvain-la-Neuve: What happens when you combine Cosmic Brutalism, high Modernism and the Catholic churchWhen the Catholic and French-speaking population of Leuven were forced to find a new university, they built their own in a unique, almost operatic architectural style.
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Mar Vista: 'A million miles away from the dreaded ranges of identikit suburban housing'In Los Angeles, 52 homes by the renowned architect Gregory Ain show how thoughtful design and landscaping can be inspired by subtle ideas about how to constitute a community that go far beyond politics.
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Le Logis and Floréal: The houses were intended to be ‘humble and enriched by vegetation’. They are just thatThe UK's rich 'Garden City' tradition, born off the back of Arts-and-Crafts, found plenty of fans in Belgium.
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Crestwood Hills: American suburbia need not have been the isolating experience it sometimes wasTim Abrahams explores a bohemian community created in Los Angeles by a group of musicians.
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There's a town in the Netherlands where you can build whatever you want. The outcome is quite extraordinaryTim Abrahams on the bewildering and intoxicating architectural collage that is Oosterwold.
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Les Espaces d'Abraxas: 'Building a Versailles for the people in Noisy-le-Grand'The Catalan architect Ricardo Bofill's development in the suburbs of Paris is an intriguing solution to how you expand a city using unwieldy machinery.
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Affordable, sustainable, rural: How a group of volunteers embarrassed the government and built some of the best new homes in the countryHazelmead has won almost every RIBA award going. The development on the outskirts of Bridport might be a springboard for a rural housing revolution, much like the Arts-and-Crafts movement more than a century ago.
