Alastair Donald

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

Related Sessions
Wednesday 19 October 2011, 6.30pm Mind in Croydon, Training Room, 10 Altyre Road, East Croydon CR0 5LA
Sunday 30 October 2011, 3.45pm Students' Union
Saturday 5 November 2011, 4.00pm Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 55, Warsawa, Poland

Publications

The Lure of the City: From Slums to Suburbs (Pluto Press, 2011)
The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (Pluto Press, 2008)

Rethinking Freedom in an Illiberal Age

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