From shopping in London to squatting in Amsterdam, and from Times Square in New York to downtown Sao Paulo, Strangely Familiar explores the vitality and variety of cities and architecture, presenting intriguingly unexpected perspectives on life in cities worldwide.

Emphasizing a new angle on architecture which highlights cultural and spatial analysis, each essay in this book tells an individual tale of the city, showing how architecture and urban space intersect within the lives of city dwellers throughout the world. This unique collaborative effort of many of the world's foremost theorists and critics of art, architecture, cultural studies, sociology, history and geography, Strangely Familiar will strikingly appeal to anyone interested in architecture, graphic or urban design, or urban history.