Many hundreds of years ago, the city of Ember was created by the Builders to contain everything needed for human survival. It worked - but now the storerooms are almost out of food, crops are blighted, corruption is spreading through the city and worst of all - the lights are failing.

James Blish's volume explores a future in which two crucial discoveries -- antigravity devices which enable whole cities to be lifted from the Earth to become giant spaceships, and longevity drugs which enable their inhabitants to live for thousands of years -- lead to the establishment of a unique Galactic empire.

A collection of twenty stories that are both melancholy and funny, farce and fantasy. It charts the struggles of an Italian peasant to reconcile country habits with urban life, combining comical disasters with a surrealistic view of city life through the eyes of an outsider.

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax.

Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor.

In this volume, 253 archetypal patterns consisting of problem statements, discussions, illustrations, and solutions provide lay persons with a framework for engaging in architectural design.

Ambergris is a cruelly beautiful metropolis. For anyone privileged to venture there, the name Ambergris conjures up one of the great and unforgettably fantastic cities of contemporary literature. This book collects all of the Ambergris novellas including the World Fantasy Award winner The Transformation of Martin Lake .

Offers a study of the political and social history of the 1960s. This book presents an account of how the issues of street crime and civil unrest enhanced the popularity of conservatives, eroded the credibility of liberals, and transformed the landscape of American politics.

The very best of Will Self's columns for the Independent on the oddities of place, with Ralph Steadman's trademark illustrations.

The second "Hawk and Fisher" omnibus, from the author of the "Deathstalker" series.

Eighty percent of the planet's greenhouse gases are created by energy-intensive urban centres. Thus, the key to creating climate change solutions resides with cities. This work describes how we got here, why we got here, and what can be done about it. It is suitable for those who care about thinking and acting differently and making a difference.

The Cybercities Reader is an interdisciplinary analysis of the relationships between cities, urban life and new technologies. With detailed case studies, it covers post-modern technoculture, virtual reality and the body, global city economies, urban surveillance, E-Commerce, digital architecture, urban technology strategies and more.

Wasting Land in Urban America. Contains 130 aerial photos of American cities and 30 unique maps created for the book.

Offers a view of urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory, presenting models that demonstrate how complexity theory can embrace a myriad of processes and elements that combine into organic wholes.