Much has been written about the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, but perhaps less about one of the most important aspects of his way of thinking and designing: the relationship between architecture and the city. The volume aims to fill this gap, gathering the contributions of many international scholars and researchers who have tried to confront his extraordinary capacity to think and build the places of the contemporary city. In fact, Mies' projects can all be read and interpreted as a meditated and clear reflection on the relationships to be established with urban features, with the specific conditions of the context, and with the elements of nature. In relation to the diversity of scales with which Mies confronts the city his projects can be understood both as architectures capable of weaving close relationships with the consolidated context, and as prefigurations of a different idea of the city realised in collaboration with Ludwig Hilberseimer. The book articulates the contributions through various topics, from which emerges the complexity and richness of a design-thinking that finds in the historical experience and in the adherence to reality its extraordinary actuality.