Christopher Beanland is a journalist, comedy writer and author who specialises in architecture and travel writing. He is the author of Unbuilt: Radical Visions of a Future that Never Arrived and Lido: A dip into outdoor swimming pools: the history, design and people behind them. He writes regularly for the Guardian, Independent and The Telegraph and is the creator of Park Date - a podcast where he interviews celebrity guests in a park. Christopher lives in London.
‘Told in clean, clear prose accompanied by collages, sketches,
models and maps, Beanland’s book plumbs the archives of
20th-century plans for alternate visions of our cities’
*Monocle Weekend Newsletter*
‘Discover a plethora of boundary pushing ideas ahead of their time
and designs that never left the drawing board’
*The Modern House*
‘A fantastic survey of 20th century architectural ambitions.
It spans a host of ideas that … run the gamut of the sublime to the
ridiculous, often calling into question some of the great
visionaries of the modern age’
*The London Society*
‘A very beautiful hardback book full of colour illustrations and
fascinating stories of dreams that never became reality’
*Roads.co.uk*
‘A thing of beauty’
*Twitter*
‘Runs the gamut of the sublime to the ridiculous, often calling
into the question some of the great visionaries of the modern
age’
*London Society Journal*
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