«’A powerful collection that opens new questions and provides intriguing leads on subjects critical to identities and spaces in cities across five continents, proposing new ways of exploring and understanding relationships between popular and formal design, building and social forms.’ Alan Mabin, University of Pretoria, South Africa ’There are few aspects of 20th-century modernism that have been mostly ignored by architectural historians, but Elleh’s book casts light on one of them: the unplanned areas of cities that the heroic figures of modernism sought to replace. The essays masterfully collected in this volume address neighbourhoods across the globe, and make clear that while the architecture of necessity is modernism’s Other, it is also its parallel. This book doesn’t solve the housing problem, although the knowledge it imparts suggests promising directions. It is difficult for architectural historians to address architecture without architects and without budgets, yet the authors marshalled here demonstrate a thoughtful ability to tackle this unruly and uncomfortable subject. It’s a pleasure to read talented architectural historians and architects who apply their expertise to the thorniest of topics. These neighbourhoods and their creators are not modernity’s opposite, they are a part of it.’ Mark Hinchman, Taylor's University, Malaysia»