Austin Williams is director of the Future Cities Project, and author of China’s Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-cities (Bloomsbury, 2017) and 20 Chinese Architects (Thames & Hudson, 2018). He is also the China correspondent for the Architectural Review, contributing editor for AR Pacific Region, and writes occasionally for L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. Austin is senior lecturer at Dept of Architecture, Kingston University, and honorary research fellow at Xi’an-Jiaotong Liverpool University. He is also the author of The Enemies of Progress, co-editor of The Future of Community and The Lure of the City, and co-founded the Mantownhuman Manifesto and the New Narratives initiative.