Entries list the address of the building, the client, architect, and the cost.
Each of the guides gives a concise yet through introduction to the city's social history, and the social and political climate in which the projects were built. A revised edition was published in 1994, and a third edition in October 1995, reprinted in April 1996 and January 1997. The series now covers almost 30 cities around the world and more titles are being added.