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Zusatztext "Swollen by tides of disappearance and dreams! this urban hologram is a gift from CJ Lim and Ed Liu: an extraordinary carousel of romance and nursery rhymes! spinning a new London from artificial Thameside islands and abandoned sandcastles! its slum constellations acupunctured from above by celestial postcodes. Lim and Liu offer us Eden: mythic respite from a world where architecture means nothing but backdrop. Here! we see! the city will always be canine! animated by angels! ungoverned and anything but mundane."Geoff Manaugh! BLDGBLOG Informationen zum Autor CJ Lim is the Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design at the Bartlett! UCL! and founder of Studio 8 Architects! a multi-disciplinary practice in urban planning! architecture and landscape that specialises in cultural and social sustainability. His tenth authored book Smartcities and Eco-warriors was published by Routledge in 2010.Ed Liu is a partner at Barnaby Gunning Architects! and is a long-time collaborator of Studio 8 Architects. He has worked in Hong Kong! Taiwan and Sri Lanka! and is the co-author of Smartcities and Eco-warriors. Zusammenfassung Combining place and fiction in an imaginative interpretation of 10 sites in the city of London, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take familiar places, institutions and landmarks in the British capital and render them fantastic. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Prologue: Dream Isle. NW1: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. SE1 to EC4: Discontinuous Cities. SE16: Darwin’s Islands. SW1: Madam Delia’s Urban Roost. SW7: Carousel. SW11: Battersea Dating Agency. EC1: The Nocturnal Tower. W1: The Baker’s Garden. W2 to EC3: The Celestial River. Any Public Square in London: The Globetrotter
