London is one of the worlds leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions, and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised, tightly networked, modern world.
What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the citys future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. The London 2062 Programme from University College London brings a new, cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative, approach to investigating this complexity. The programme crosses departmental boundaries...

Sustainable development is one of the key challenges of the twenty-first century. The engineering profession is central to achieving sustainable development. To date, engineering contributions to sustainability have focused on reducing the environmental impacts of development and improving the efficiency of resource use. This approach is consistent with dominant policy responses to environmental problems, which have been characterised as ecological modernisation. Ecological modernisation assumes that sustainability can be addressed by reforming modern society and developing environmental...