Ever lived in or visited a great city and wondered what makes it tick?Over the next 15 years China is set to urbanise 300 million people and build the equivalent urban area of North America. London is set to grow by two million people by 2030 and in the same period Sao Paulo will increase by three million. This is the greatest period of urbanisation in human history and yet the buildings and places we are designing and developing leave a great deal to be desired.The worlds cities are increasingly becoming a one-stop solution of homogenous shopping centres and apartment towers. With hundreds of millions of people set to move to our cities in the coming decades there is huge social responsibility to ensure that people arent subjected to identikit lives that compromise health; wellbeing and general happiness.Living in Wonderland seeks to explore the challenges currently facing urban development and masterplanning and to look at how the places people live; work and shop in can define a neighbourhood or city. Exploring real-life projects across the globe - all studied first-hand by the author - the book aims to encourage debate and promote innovative solutions in development and urbanism.The book is designed to fill the gap between the glossy and superficial coffee table books and theoretical academic papers. Its aim is to inspire practitioners and students of property development; architecture; town planning and anyone with an interest in the urban environment and to demonstrate the vital need to design places for people.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great; in a Kindle version on good tabletBy reviews again5 stars for Kindle version. The book has seen major update to previous version; which I waited out and am glad I did. Kindle version viewed on any high resolution screen is going to be great for any purchaser (not sure about paperwhite; but that is my quibble with that device once I started using a good tablet; the damn thing is just way too slow). Having said that; why is this book NOT published in ring binding version? A hardback would help keeping pages together; but paperback for a darkroom cookbook that is to be flipped all over all the time? This is a major flaw of this publication and hard to understand.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. The darkroom workers bible.By Mark BauI had an older edition of this book which I found indispensable. This new edition has so much new information and chapters by renowned photographers that I would now rate this book as absolutely essential reading for any darkroom worker. I really like the authors strong emphasis on darkroom safety. Would give it 6 stars if I could!1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Still; the One and Only....By Randall StewartYou have to love it - the book is the only subject matter of its type to my knowledge currently in print. It is also unique in assembling all of this information in one place. I got the 1st edition many years ago.. Each subsequent edition and this latest is a marginal improvement; partly as to additional information of marginal usage; but also with better organization and indexing. Anyone wanting to compound their own conventional types of photo chemistry [black white] could probably do just as well with any edition. Note that the information on "alternative processes" varies from sufficient down to minimal - you may have to fall back on the internet to fill out your knowledge of some of the more uncommonly used processes. If you get into such oddities; you will be doing that anyway. This not a beginners guide to DIY film developing. There are many "how to do it" books out there; and most all of them are a better education for the newbe to film processing techniques.
