A critique of Cameron McEwan's volume - 'Analogical City' - on the urban and architectural theories of Itailian architect Aldo Rossi (1931-97) - The recent opening of the exhibition of drawings 'Tracing Rossi' at the Stallan Brand studio gallery in Glasgow offered an opportunity to examine author McEwan's in-depth published study of the influential architect Rossi. Via discussion of a relatively obscure and neglected project by Rossi, the book 'Analogical City' makes weighty claims for architecture as a poetic, political and above all, critical practice.