Paul Dobraszczyk: 3 books

Book cover of London’s Sewers
by Paul Dobraszczyk
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014

London's sewers could be called the city's forgotten underground: mostly invisible subterranean spaces of absolutely vital importance that nonetheless rarely get the same degree of attention as the Tube. Paul Dobraszczyk here outlines the fascinating history of London's sewers from the nineteenth...
Book cover of Future Cities

Future Cities

Architecture and the Imagination

by Paul Dobraszczyk
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019

Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today’s cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination....
Book cover of The Dead City

The Dead City

Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay

by Paul Dobraszczyk
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017

Cities are imagined not just as utopias, but also as ruins. In literature, film, art and popular culture, urban landscapes have been submerged by floods, razed by alien invaders, abandoned by fearful inhabitants and consumed in fire. The Dead City unearths meanings from such depictions of ruination...
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