Nick Dunn is the author of numerous books on architecture and urbanism. He is Executive Director and Professor of Urban Design at Imagination, Lancaster University where he is also...view moreNick Dunn is the author of numerous books on architecture and urbanism. He is Executive Director and Professor of Urban Design at Imagination, Lancaster University where he is also Associate Director of the Institute for Social Futures. His work responds to the contemporary city as a series of systems, flows and processes, and is explored through experimentation and discourse addressing the nature of the built environment. His longstanding interests in the perception, demarcation and appropriation of urban space have culminated in his most recent book, Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City (Zero Books, 2016). He lives and walks in Manchester.view less