Publications
Stefan Al has authored or edited ten books on cities and the built environment, alongside scholarly articles in peer-reviewed journals and popular writing for outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Wired. For a complete list of academic publications and citations, visit his Google Scholar profile.
Books
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Supertall
How the World’s Tallest Buildings Are Reshaping Our Cities and Our Lives
W.W. Norton
"A thoughtful inquiry into the new generations of skyscrapers…There is a lot of rich history here, well and concisely told."
Paul Goldberger, New York Times Book Review
The Urbanism Reader
Design, Technology, Culture, and the Future of Cities
Bloomsbury
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Beyond Mobility
Planning Cities for People and Places
Island Press
National Urban Design Award
Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Slate Money
Slate Money talks with author and architect Stefan Al on his new book about skyscrapers. They talk about the human desire to build tall buildings (and the backlash to them), why parts of New York don’t work, but Hong Kong does, and why people keep paying premiums for apartments that sway.
NPR Marketplace
What are the changing trends in hospitality and vacationing in America? Kai Ryssdal interviewed Stefan Al on Marketplace about his book The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream.
Television
CGTN
Almost one million people move to Asian cities every week, two thirds of the global total. CGTN interviewed Stefan Al on the challenges of urbanization in China, which has added half a billion people to its cities in only forty years.
Referenced in
Not Your Grandfather’s Skyscraper
The New York Times
Book Review: Stefan Al’s Thoroughly Excellent ‘Supertall’
Forbes Magazine
‘Supertall’ Review: Kissing the Clouds
The Wall Street Journal
"Ancient cooling techniques" allow 3D-printed partitions to regulate temperature
Dezeen
Can supertall buildings help us build more sustainable cities?
NPR Marketplace
Stefan Al Architects Design Mass Timber Residential Building For A Postcovid World
Design Nuance
How Supertall Buildings Lift Us Higher
Engineering News-Record
‘Supertall’ Book Review
Kirkus Reviews
How engineers enabled buildings to colonize the clouds
Japan News
5 Questions with Stefan Al, Architect, Urban Designer, and Educator
Central Park Conservancy
In Hamburg, Climate Change Means Living With Water
Bloomberg News, CityLab + Green
First Principles for Sustainable and Equitable Transportation: A Review of Beyond Mobility
Resilience
Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise
A Daily Dose of Architecture
Book Review: Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies
Spacing
The Architecture of the American Dream
The Wall Street Journal
Informal Urbanism
Architectural Record
The history of the Las Vegas Strip is the history of how we vacation
NPR Marketplace
10 Must-Read Design Books To Get You Ready For 2018
Co Design
Redesigning Las Vegas: Entertainment Architecture for the Experience Economy
Archinect
Book Review: Villages in the City
Spacing
The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
Publishers Weekly
Factory Towns of South China
Architectural Record
Learning from Las Vegas: What the Strip can teach us about urban planning
The Guardian
Mall City: Hong Kong’s Dreamworlds of Consumption
China Perspectives
Popular Writing
Can Hong Kong, One of the World’s Densest Cities, Bounce Back From Covid?
The Wall Street Journal
The Concrete Jungle Is Turning Green Again
Wired
A Resilience Checklist
Architecture Boston
To Curb Flooding, Improve Urban Design
Houston Chronicle
The Story of Retail is the Story of Urbanization. So What’s Next?
Brink Magazine
All under one roof: how malls and cities are becoming indistinguishable
The Guardian
The Mall isn’t Dead - It’s just changing
CityLab
How Robert Venturi Helped Turn Las Vegas Into America’s Architecture
Garage Magazine
Books
Supertall: How the World’s Tallest Buildings are Reshaping our Cities and Our Lives
W.W. Norton
Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places
Island Press (with Robert Cervero and Erick Guerra)
Adapting Cities to Sea Level Rise: Green and Gray Strategies
Island Press
The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
The MIT Press
Villages in the City: A Guide to South China’s Informal Settlements
University of Hawaii Press (edited book)
Mall City: Hong Kong’s Dreamworlds of Consumption
University of Hawaii Press (edited book)
Factory Towns of South China: An Illustrated Guidebook
Hong Kong University Press (edited book)
Macau and the Casino Complex
University of Nevada Press (edited book)
Academic Writing
Multi-functional urban design approaches to manage floods: examples from Dutch cities
Journal of Urban Design
How to save traditional shopping streets: the place attraction paradigm by Matthew Carmona
Journal of Urban Design
Hong Kong’s Transit-Oriented Podium Tower Developments
Vertical Urbanism
Spaces of Informal Production in China (with Jonathan Bach)
The Design of Urban Manufacturing
The Hyper-Collage City: Public Space in the Pearl River Delta
The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area
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