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Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

William J. Mitchell, Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, held the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (1954) Professorship and directed the Media Lab’s Smart Cities research group. He was formerly Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, both at MIT. His recent books include Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City (MIT Press DATE), Me++: The Cyborg Self and the Networked City (MIT Press, 2003), e-topia: Urban Life, Jim—But Not As We Know It (MIT Press, 1999), and City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (MIT Press, 1995). These books explore the new forms and functions of cities in the digital electronic era and suggest design and planning directions for the future. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Norman M. Klein

Iain Borden Director of Architectural History and Theory and Reader in Architecture and Urban Culture at the Bartlett, University College London Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Ali Madanipour is professor of urban design and director of the Global Urban Research Unit (GURU) at Newcastle University, UK. In 2010 he was the City of Vienna senior visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna, and in 2011 the Wits-Claude Leon Distinguished Scholar, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has published numerous books on planning, design, development and management of cities, which have been translated into many languages. His more recent publications include Critical Concepts in the Built Environment: Planning Theory (2015), Reconsidering Localism, (2015), Urban Design, Space and Society (2014) and Knowledge Economy and the City: Spaces of knowledge (2011). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Tony Fry is Director of the sustainment consultancy Team D/E/S and Professor of Design, Griffith University, Queensland College of Art. He is also author of Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Berg, 2008) and Design as Politics (Berg, 2010). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Leon van Schaik is Professor of Architecture (Innovation Chair) at RMIT, from which base he has promoted local and international architectural culture through design practice research. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Geoffrey London is Government Architect for Victoria, having previously been Government Architect for Western Australia and Professor of Architecture at the University of Western Australia. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Ed Wall is a landscape architect based in London. He teaches landscape architecture at Kingston University. His recent projects have focussed on the definition of the urban public realm in South London. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Tim Waterman has worked on numerous large-scale strategic and master planning projects in central London and southeast England. He lectures in landscape architecture at the Writtle School of Design, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Richard Laing (PhD MRICS) is Professor of Built Environment Visualisation at Robert Gordon University, where his research has concerned the use and effects of visualisation within architecture, construction and public engagement. His work has included numerous projects with colleagues from across Europe, as well as the supervision of research students in fields such as collaborative design, environmental economics and built heritage conservation. He was born in Vancouver and grew up in Scotland. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Matthew Gandy is a geographer and urbanist. He is Professor of Geography at University College London (UCL) and was Director of the UCL Urban Laboratory from 2005–11. His publications include Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City (MIT Press, 2002), The Return of the White Plague (Verso, 2003) and Urban Constellations (Jovis, 2011). His research on urban infrastructure has involved the production of a documentary film, Liquid City (2007), that explores the complexity of water politics in Bombay/Mumbai. He is currently working on three themes: urban metabolism (how cities function and the ecological dynamics of urban space); cyborg urbanization (how our bodies are connected to urban space); and cinematic landscapes (how cities and landscapes are represented in moving images). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.