Imagining the future city London 2062
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 a...
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London :
Ubiquity Press Limited
2013
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Sarah Bell, James Paskins, Joanna Wilson and Jennifer Johnson
- Connections. London's population / Pablo Mateos
- Making London, through other cities / Jennifer Robinson
- Hinterlands / Brian Collins
- Smart London / Mike Batty, Ed Manley, Richard Milton and Jon Reades
- Flux and flow / Christine Hawley
- Planetary pressures / Jean Venables
- Infrastructure / Jeremy Watson
- Things. Transport, climate change and society / Robin Hickman
- Decentralising energy / Peter North
- Taking the carbon out of heat / Bob Fiddik
- Future-proofing London / Sofie Pelsmakers
- Water supply, drainage and floods / Sarah Bell
- Hydro-urban London / Tse-Hui Teh
- The future of food / Robert Biel
- Power. Governing a future London: the city of any dreams? / Rob Pearce and Mike Raco
- Let's sing, not shop: an economist dreams of a sustainable city / David Fell
- Investing in futures / Hannah Dalgleish
- Singing the helplessness blues / Simon Cavanagh
- Rethinking London's economy and economic future / Myfanwy Taylor
- Housing, inequality and a property-owning democracy in London / Michelle Hegarty
- Paranoia House / Arthur Kay
- Dreams. Scenarios and the future of London / Theodoros Semertzidis and James Paskins
- No limits to imagining London's future / George Myerson and Yvonne Rydin
- A city-state? / Janice Morphet
- A despatch from the future / Matthew Gandy
- Reflections of a retiring bobby / Aiden Sidebottom and Justin Kurland
- London after London / Matthew Beaumont
- Conclusions / James Paskins and Sarah Bell.
