Andrew Gibson

Joe Kerr

London from Punk to Blair is a rich portrait of Europe’s foremost capital. An array of contributors, including poets, journalists, teachers, historians, wanderers, drinkers, photographers, and foodies, offer a selection of personal and subjective readings of the city since the late ’70s. These essays chart a variety of literal and metaphorical explorations through modern and postmodern London, showing how it works, and how it fails to work; what makes it vibrant, and what makes it seedy. From West End galleries to strip pubs in Shoreditch; from millionaires’ loft apartments to buses and suburban Tube stops; from film, fashion, and gay clubs to punk bands, ruinous factories, pigeon filth, and the vagaries of weather, London from Punk to Blair embraces the city like no other book has before. This revised edition includes a new introduction by editor Joe Kerr that brings the book up to date and gives the essays context for the post-recession world. “Full of insight into the diverse experiences that constitute the recent history of London.”—Architects’ Journal “This rewarding collection brings into clear focus those dramatic shifts in the fortunes of the metropolis. . . . Beautiful, revealing insights into particular ways of understanding and using the city.”—London Society Journal

Revised Second Edition

London From Punk to Blair

Over 350 fun and boredom-busting Would You Rather conundrums - on all things princesses! Perfect family-friendly fun for the summer holidays, long journeys, rainy days inside and family dinners. Would you rather only travel via Moana's boat or by riding Pegasus? Would you rather have Ursula's voice or Cruella de Vil's hair? If you could only wear one outfit for the rest of your life, would you rather it be Belle's yellow dress or Jasmine's crop top and harem pants? The perfect mind-boggler for ages 6 to 106, The Bumper Book of Would You Rather?: Princess Edition will leave you scratching your head page after page, and is guaranteed to provide you with hours of entertainment.

The Bumper Book of Would You Rather?: Princes and Princesses Edition

Over 350 fun and boredom-busting Would You Rather conundrums - on all things heroes and villains! Perfect family-friendly fun for the summer holidays, long journeys, rainy days inside and family dinners. Would you rather have web-shooters or Thor's hammer? Would you rather take the Hulk or Venom home to meet your family? Would you rather wear Iron Man's suit to the beach, or to bed? The perfect mind-boggler for ages 6 to 106, The Bumper Book of Would You Rather?: Heroes and Villains Edition will leave you scratching your head page after page, and is guaranteed to provide you with hours of entertainment.

The Bumper Book of Would You Rather?: Heroes and Villains edition

Iain Borden

Alicia Pivaro

Contesting Architecture and Social Space : a Strangely Familiar Project

The Unknown City

The Bumper Book of Would You Rather?: Heroes and Villains Edition and The Bumper Book of Would You Rather?: Princes and Princesses Edition are out now! Stuck at home on a rainy day or heading off on a long journey? Need something fun and engaging to occupy you, your kids or your whole family? Then get stuck into these 350 ridiculous, mind-boggling and hilarious hypothetical questions! Would you rather always have wet hair or always have wet feet? Would you rather live in a lighthouse on an island or a treehouse in a rainforest? Would you rather give the stranger on the bus next to you £1 million or receive £50,000 yourself? And would you rather chew someone else's chewing gum . . . or drink someone else's backwash??? The perfect brain-stretcher for anyone aged 6 to 106, The Bumper Book of Would You Rather? is guaranteed to provide you with HOURS of entertainment. Don't miss these other great titles from Sphere Books: ** Distract Yourself: 101 Positive Things to Do and Learn Whilst You Stay Home ** ** Home Sweet Home: The Little Book of Natural Cleaning ** ** Shelf Respect: A Book Lovers' Guide to Curating Book Shelves at Home **

Over 350 hilarious hypothetical questions for anyone aged 6 to 106

The Bumper Book of Would You Rather?

Travis Elborough

This is a collection of writings on the London bus, edited by Joe Kerr and Travis Elborough. Instantly recognizable, endlessly imitated, beloved by tourists and Londoners alike: London's buses are iconic. Not merely a vital component of the city's infrastructure, they are equally embedded in its culture; written about, sung about, joked about, filmed, painted (and painted on), advertised, and celebrated in myriad ways. And for the many thousands of people who have depended on them for a livelihood--drivers, conductors, cleaners, mechanics, inspectors--they have created their own world, complete with a distinct language, with uniforms, with places, and with men and women of every imaginable culture and ethnicity. This new collection aims to celebrate the unique relationship that Londoners have with their most important mode of transport, telling you all the things you never knew about London's lifeblood and how it's kept the capital moving for more than a century. Tourists take the tube--but real Londoners take the bus.

Collected Writings on the London Bus

Bus Fare

Jane Rendell

A look beyond design process and buildings aimed at discovering new ways of looking at the urban experience.

Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Peter Wollen

The reach of the car today is almost universal, and its effect on landscapes, cityscapes, cultures – indeed, on the very fabric of the modern world – is profound. Cars have brought benefits to individuals in terms of mobility and expanded horizons, but the cost has been very high in terms of damage to the environment and the consumption of precious resources. Despite the growing belief that a Faustian price is now being paid for the freedom cars have bestowed on us, we are none the less manufacturing them in ever greater numbers. Autopia is the first book to explore the culture of the motor car in the widest possible sense. Featuring newly commissioned essays by writers, critics, historians, artists and film-makers, as well as reprinting key texts, it examines the effect of the car throughout the world, including the USA, Western and Eastern Europe, Japan, China, Cuba, India and South Africa. In this book the car is treated neither as a technological fetish object nor as an instrument of danger. Instead, it is examined as a hugely important determinant of 20th-century culture, neither wholly good nor an unmitigated disaster, and certainly endlessly fascinating. Contributors include Michael Bracewell, Ziauddin Sardar, Al Rees, Martin Pawley, Donald Richie and Peter Hamilton. Key texts by Marshall Berman, Jane Jacobs, Roland Barthes, Marc Augé and others.

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