London 2062 - Imagining the future city (University College London)

UCL Minds

English - December 20, 2013 12:11 - 13 minutes - 12 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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Is London turning into a city where football clubs such as Arsenal and Chelsea run schools, Londoners commonly convert their roofs into "micro-farms" and people are subject to separate migration laws to the rest of the UK?

A new UCL book enables academics to imagine how current trends in energy use, transport, education, governance and health might have played out by 2062.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1113/181113-London2062
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/london-2062/book

In Imagining the Future City: London 2062, world-leading experts in urban planning, geography, politics, engineering, computer science and policy contribute scenarios intended to provoke debate about the choices currently facing Londoners.

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