Inland Architecture, by Phillip Bess
Philip Bess likes cities, especially Chicago. He likes cities that work--cities that do not just promote commercial and cultural activity and move traffic, garbage and pedestrians efficiently, but that create a space for human flourishing. Cities are not utilitarian entities governed by impersonal market forces. They are moral entities, Bess argues. A professor of architecture at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, he is one of a few thinkers doing serious theological reflection on the state of modern architecture and urbanism.