What is the Future Cities project?
The Future Cities Project has a critical take on contemporary attitudes to modern life and the way we live today. It:
- promotes a human-centred approach to nature
- rejects the increasingly bureaucratised approach to architecture and urbanity
- challenges risk-aversion and the precautionary principle
- believes that environmentalism is driving down social aspirations
- criticises the use of politicised solutions to technical problems
- encourages debate, argument, critical dialogue and freedom of expression, and
- fights for development instead of sustainable development
Published: 1st May 2008
"The Enemies of Progress:"
The Dangers of Sustainability
pp96, (Imprint Academic) ISBN-10: 1845400984
Available on 1 May 2008: "See
here"
Launch Party, 21st May, Waterstones Economist Bookshop, London 6:30pm.
New! US Readers' Group
We now have a Readers Group in San Francisco. The next discussion will be about The Enemies of Progress by Austin Williams on the 19th of August. San Francisco Readers Group is coordinated by Elisabetta Gasparoni Abraham.
Bookshop Barnies
Tuesday 22 July 2008
Nigel Lawson will talk about his book An Appeal to Reason which takes on the authodoxies surrounding climate change.
Click here for details...As one of Atlantic's 'Books that Shook the World' series, a
Readers' Group
Tuesday 5 August 2008
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
