Against Urbanism, Franco La CeclaAfter demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book Against Architecture, Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly inadequate in response to the daily realities of life in our cities. Human, economic, ethnic, and environmental factors are systematically overlooked in city planning and housing development, and

In the sixteenth century

and become part of our collective storytelling imagination

But Rowan is veering dangerously off course

The elimination of eighteen triggered the Inquisition

Only the driver didn’t fall

The world of UnLondon is populated by astonishing frights and delights that will thrill the imagination

The result is a truly psychotic urban nightmare

a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald’s in the middle of the night

where a war without end is always fought and the government is always watching

when Italian immigrant Cesare Mondavi passed through Ellis Island

An achingly funny story about how to be your own hero when life pulls the rug out from under your feet

and the right to self-determination for those with cognitive differences