senior lecturer, author and academic
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Austin Williams is senior lecturer in Architecture and Professional Practice at Kingston School of Art in London and Honorary Research Fellow at XJTLU University in China. He is the director of the Future Cities Project, and the author of “China’s Urban Revolution”.
He has written for a range of magazines, including Nature, Wired; Top Gear; the Times Literary Supplement; and The Economist.