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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.

Ian Eggers’s career development saw him join Mace, having previously worked for Bovis on various prestigious projects, including Broadgate. During his time at Mace, Ian rose to the position of Managing Director of Construction Management and the subsidiary business Mace Living. Some of the highlights of Ian’s career at Mace include the successful negotiation of the contract to build the Shard at London Bridge Tower and also the accolade of having been the youngest ever winner of the coveted Construction Manager of the Year Award. Having left Mace, Ian is currently enjoying success running his own construction business, Rise. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Phil Solomon is the Operations Director within Mace leading the Construction Management and Major Projects planning teams. He has a wide background of planning and preconstruction engineering experience on projects with a high public profile and where quality is important. He has contributed to many complex projects, including several of the skyline towers in the City of London. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Warren Alexander-Pye is a Senior Project Manager and a core member of the Mace Construction Management team. He spent three years working on the Shard at London Bridge Tower and also has experience on a number of project management, construction management and pre-construction commissions, including two years of construction delivery at Canary Wharf, London. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Malcolm Hannon is Managing Director of MLogic. He has successfully managed numerous construction logistics commissions in the open market for a variety of clients. Malcolm has brought his experience and expertise to the management of collaborative construction logistics on a host of complex projects including the Shard at London Bridge Tower and Heathrow Terminal 5A. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Laura Lovell-Anderson is a Doctoral Candidate in Design at North Carolina State University, researching urban deindustrialization phenomena and the emergence of landscapes of adaptation and residency. She holds Bachelor and Master degrees in Industrial and Sustainable Design from Savannah College of Art and Design, as well as a Master’s degree in Law from Wake Forest University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Vikas Mehta, PhD, is the Fruth/Gemini Chair, the Ohio Eminent Scholar of Environment/Urban Design and Associate Professor at the School of Planning, College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Rodrigo Pérez de Arce is a Chilean architect. He is Associate Professor in Architecture at the Catholic University of Chile, and has taught as Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Architectural Association, UK, among other universities. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Jennifer Wolch is William W. Wurster Dean and Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design. She has authored or co-authored several books, including Landscapes of Despair: From Deinstitutionalization to Homelessness (with M. Dear, Princeton, 1987), The Shadow State: Government and Voluntary Sector in Transition (Foundation Center, 1990), and Malign Neglect: Homelessness in an American City (with M. Dear, Jossey-Bass, 1993), and she has edited or co-edited The Power of Geography: How Territory Shapes Social and Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity in the Nature/Culture Borderlands (with J. Emel, Verso, 1998). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Holger Koch-Nielsen is Director of the architectural consultancy Development Advisory Group, based in Denmark. Trained both as an architect and as an engineer, he has many years' experience in infrastructure projects, urban planning, administrative and industrial buildings, urban settlements as well as in construction programmes for schools, training centres and low-cost housing, working with development projects for UNESCO, UNOPS, UNDP, UNICEF and National Donors and NGOs. He has also been lecturing in building design issues both in Europe and in developing countries. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Manchester in its School of Environment and Development. Swyngedouw has authored several major works on political ecology, radical politics, economic globalization, regional development, finance, and urbanization, including Can Neighbourhoods Save the City? with eds. Gonzalez, Martinelli and Moulaert (Routledge, 2010), In the Nature of Cities with eds. Heynen and Kaika (Routledge 2005), Social Power and the Urbanization of Water (Oxford University Press, 2004), The Globalized City with Moulaert and Rodriguez, (Oxford, 2003) and The Urbanization of Injustice with ed. Merrifield (Lawrence and Wishart, 1996). His forthcoming book will be on Modernization, Water and Social Power in Spain, 1898–2010 (MIT Press). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.