 | Austin Williams is director of the Future Cities Project. An architect and project manager by profession, he was the technical editor at the Architects’ Journal; architecture critic on BBC London; and transport commentator with The Daily Telegraph. He is now an architectural producer at NBS Learning Channels and author and illustrator of Shortcuts Books 1 & 2. He is the author of The Enemies of Progress: The Dangers of Sustainability and founder of Manifesto Towards a New Humanism in Architecture. He is co-editor of The Future of Community; co-author of The Macro World of Microcars; and contributor to Global Warming and Other Bollocks. He is currently researching Better City: Better Life: The Challenges of an Urban World and the new editions of Shortcuts which will come out in 2011. He has written for a range of books and publications, from The Times Literary Supplement to Top Gear, from New Humanist to The Tablet. He devised and chairs the Bookshop Barnies. Contact: www.futurecities.org.uk and www.mantownhuman.org |
The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated (ed, with Alastair Donald, Martin Earnshaw and Dave Clements) (Pluto Press, 2008)
Enemies of Progress: The Dangers of Sustainability (Societas, 2008)
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