Volume 3 of the four-volume work Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst provides examples of squares as a guide to designing them. It depicts squares in Aachen, Alsfeld, Ansbach, Berlin, Braunschweig, Bremen, Celle, Dresden, Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg, Freudenstadt, Görlitz, Hamburg, Hannover, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Kassel, Kempten, Leipzig, Lindau, Lübeck, Lüneburg, Ludwigsburg, Mannheim, Munich, Putbus, Regensburg, Rosenheim, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Stralsund, Trier, Tübingen, Wangen, Warendorf, Weimar, Wismar, and Wuppertal for comparison. Featuring essays by Jan Pieper and Mirjam Schmidt. Now available in a student edition, the Handbuch der Stadtbaukunst is a compendium of essential urban design expertise. Using 150 examples from over 70 German cities, it illustrates, analyzes, and compares a wide range of urban spaces, courtyards, squares, and streets. Editor Christoph Mäckler builds on the textbooks of the early twentieth century by Cornelius Gurlitt, Raymond Unwin, and Josef Stübben and offers a well-grounded framework for city planning. The student edition is available as a set consisting of volumes 1-4. The individual volumes can also be purchased separately.

Christoph Mäckler is an architect based in Frankfurt am Main, professor emeritus of urban design at TU Dortmund, and director of the Deutsches Institut fur Stadtbaukunst, which he founded in 2008. From 1990 until 1997 he held visiting professorships in Naples, Braunschweig, and Hanover, and was a member of the Internationale Bauakademie Berlin.