Alastair Donald is associate director of the Future Cities Project, and co-editor of The Lure of the City: From Slums to Suburbs (Pluto 2011). He is an urban designer, researching mobility and space at the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge.

He’s a regular contributor to Urban Design, and has written for Blueprint, World Architecture and Culture Wars, and was co-editor of the Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (Pluto Press 2008). He co-founded of mantownhuman who published the Manifesto: Towards a New Humanism in Architecture, and was convenor of the Critical Subjects architecture and design winter school