
The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City
Book
The Smoke of London uncovers the origins of urban air pollution, two centuries before the industrial...

The Stadium Century: Sport, Spectatorship and Mass Society in Modern France
Maire Cross, Robert W. Lewis and David Hopkin
Book
The stadium century traces the history of stadia and mass spectatorship in modern France from the...

Fawad Kazi: ETH Zurich Building LEE
Book
ETH Zurich's new building LEE is an extraordinary project from both an urban planning and an...

New China Architecture
Patrick Bingham-Hall and Xing Ruan
Book
Featuring hundreds of photographs and extensive commentary, this modern architecture and design book...

Street Furniture Design: Contesting Modernism in Post-War Britain
Book
Eleanor Herring's unique study of street furniture in post-war Britain considers how objects which...

Sustainability in the Global City: Myth and Practice
Cindy Isenhour, Gary McDonogh and Melissa Checker
Book
Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and...

Shakespeare's Two Playhouses: Repertory and Theatre Space at the Globe and the Blackfriars, 1599-1613
Book
In what ways did playwrights like Shakespeare respond to the two urban locations of the Globe and...

Secondary Cities and Development
Etienne Nel, Lochner Marais and Ronnie Donaldson
Book
The role secondary cities play in the global space economy and national urban hierarchies is...

Riddick (2013)
Movie Watch
Vin Diesel reprises his role as the antihero Riddick in the latest chapter of the groundbreaking...

German Soldier vs Soviet Soldier: Stalingrad 1942-43
Chris McNab and Johnny Shumate
Book
By the end of the first week of November 1942, the German Sixth Army held about 90 per cent of...