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oapen-20.500.12657-332132021-04-30T09:24:29Z Imagining the Future City Bell, Sarah Paskins, James sustainable cities london 2062 architecture and planning technology and civil engineering ucl grand challenges future cities London bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape art & architecture::AMVD City & town planning - architectural aspects bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSG Urban communities bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city’s future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. The London 2062 Programme from University College London brings a new, cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative approach to investigating this complexity. The programme crosses departmental boundaries within the university, and promotes active collaboration between leading academics and those who shape London through policy and practice. This book approaches the question of London’s future by considering the city in terms of Connections, Things, Power and Dreams. 2015-12-31 23:55:55 2019-03-04 09:33:06 2020-04-01T14:36:42Z 2020-04-01T14:36:42Z 2013 book 533881 OCN: 869314050 9781909188198;9781909188204 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33213 eng Sustainable Cities Series application/pdf n/a 533881.pdf http://www.ubiquitypress.com/site/books/detail/6/imagining-the-future-city-london-2062/ Ubiquity Press 10.5334/bag 10.5334/bag d5069e3b-8e22-4e18-9d2d-558a5f96d506 9781909188198;9781909188204 192 open access
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London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city’s future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. The London 2062 Programme from University College London brings a new, cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative approach to investigating this complexity. The programme crosses departmental boundaries within the university, and promotes active collaboration between leading academics and those who shape London through policy and practice.
This book approaches the question of London’s future by considering the city in terms of Connections, Things, Power and Dreams.
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