Future Cities Laboratory: Indicia 02 (Cairns Stephen)(Paperback)

Future Cities Laboratory: Indicia 02 (Cairns Stephen)(Paperback)

This second volume in the Future Cities Laboratory Indicia series focuses on the tools, methods and approaches needed for urban research. In short, following Marshall McLuhan's famous provocation, the editors focus less on the message and more on the medium of research. This involves retreating

Future Cities: A Visual Guide (Dunn Nick)(Paperback)

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these

Stir Futures: Trading Euribor and Eurodollar Futures (Aikin Stephen)(Paperback)

A History of Future Cities (Brook Daniel)(Paperback)

Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world 'instant cities' like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints

Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture (Cairns Stephen)(Paperback)

Part memento mori for architecture, and part invocation to reimagine the design values that lay at the heart of its creative purpose.Buildings, although inanimate, are often assumed to have 'life.' And the architect, through the act of design, is assumed to be their conceiver and creator. But what

The Stealers' War (Hunt Stephen)(Paperback)

Weyland has been at war. Invaded by a technologically advanced enemy, the cities sacked, and what fragile peace remained torn apart by a civil war. All anyone should want is a return to peace. But Jacob Carneham still wants his revenge; and if he can lure the invaders into the mountain he can have

Life of Stephen Lawrence (Allette Wilkins Verna)(Paperback / softback)

Stephen Lawrence was a bright, athletic, young man with high hopes for the future. On 22 April 1993, he was brutally murdered while he was waiting for the bus. He will be remembered. This paperback edition revised with added material about the trial, the legacy of Stephen Lawrence and a final

Rebuilding Earth: Designing Ecoconscious Habitats for Humans (Coady Teresa)(Paperback)

A revolutionary guide to designing humane, eco-conscious homes, buildings, and cities of the future. It is estimated that the earth's population will expand to an unprecedented nine billion people over the next century. This explosion in population is predicted to place further stress on our

Paris Revealed - The Secret Life of a City (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

PARIS - one of the most visited cities in the world. BUT do you know

Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies (Ernstson Henrik)(Paperback)

Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments.The global discourse around urban ecology tends to homogenize and universalize, relying on such terms as 'smart cities,' 'eco-cities,' and 'resilience,' and proposing a 'science

Autopia: The Future of Cars (Bentley Jon)(Paperback)

Cars are one of the most significant human creations. They changed our cities. They changed our lives. They changed everything. But in the next years, this technology will itself change enormously. If Google get their way, are we all going to be ferried around in tiny electric bubble-cars? Or will

Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers (Graham Stephen)(Paperback)

A revolutionary reimagining of the cities we live in, the air above us, and what goes on in the earth beneath our feet Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that

Mortal Engines (Reeve Philip)(Paperback / softback)

The first book in the award-winning MORTAL ENGINES quartet. In a dangerous future, huge motorized cities hunt, attack and fight each other for survival. As London pursues a small town, young apprentice Tom is flung out into the wastelands, where a terrifying cyborg begins to hunt him down. MORTAL

Traces (Baxter Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

Stories set in a variety of futures from the award-winning heir of Arthur C. Clarke: Traces gives a kaleidoscopic vision of the possibilities for

Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future (Peake Stephen)(Paperback)

The provision of sustainable energy supplies for an expanding and increasingly productive world is one of the major issues facing civilisation today. Renewable Energy examines both the practical and economic potential of the renewable energy sources to meet this challenge. The underlying physical

Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, Seventh Edition (Wegren Stephen K.)(Paperback)

Now in a thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition, this classic text provides the most authoritative and current analysis of contemporary Russia. Leading scholars explore the daunting domestic and international problems Russia confronts, considering a comprehensive array of economic,

Cities In Flight (Blish James)(Paperback / softback)

James Blish's galaxy-spanning masterwork, originally published in four volumes, explores a future in which two crucial discoveries - antigravity devices which enable whole cities to be lifted from the Earth to become giant spaceships, and longevity drugs which enable their inhabitants to live for

Future Is Asian - Global Order in the Twenty-first Century (Khanna Parag)(Paperback / softback)

Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive technological innovation, the newest crop of