As a highly-respected Australian artist and architect, Richard Goodwin aims with this book to change our view of cities as collections of individual buildings. By prejudicing public space and finding previously undefined public spaces within them, which he calls 'chiastic space', the book presents ideas for a radically transformed western city.

As a highly-respected Australian artist and architect, Richard Goodwin aims with this book to change our view of cities as collections of individual buildings. By prejudicing public space and finding previously undefined public spaces within them, which he calls 'chiastic space', the book presents ideas for a radically transformed western city.