Tomorrow's Cities - A Better Way to Live

From acclaimed journalist Gabriella Bennett comes an awe-inspiring, timely exploration of how we will live in the future, featuring global insights from Tokyo to Helsinki, Vienna to Scotland.

A moveable city in the Arctic Circle. Tower blocks tackling loneliness in Tokyo, Helsinki's sprawling underground metropolis and Ukraine's bomb-resistant bedrooms. These places, and many more, are among the strange and dazzling solutions responding to our uncertain world.

Gabriella Bennett takes readers on a globe-trotting journey to learn how we are reimagining home to embrace the challenges of contemporary living. From political instability to wildfires, flooding and an increased pressure on materials and space, the built environment is under threat like never before. It must change - and it is. We'll travel to the frontier cities of this urban revolution and discover how people are transforming their communities in surprising ways.

Celebrating human ingenuity and resilience, How to Build a City is a remarkable investigation into where we'll live and why it matters.

Gabriella Bennett is a Scottish based journalist who specialises in housing and architecture, she writes two weekly columns for The Times and The Sunday Times. Her work has appeared in numerous national newspapers, and she has widespread broadcast experience, including having presented on ITV's This Morning and appeared as a guest on BBC's Countryfile. In 2021 she was named Travel Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards. In 2019 she was the recipient of the Mairi Hedderwick Travel Writing Award from Moniack Mhor, Scotland's National Writing Centre. Her first book. The Art of Coorie was a Waterstones bestseller.