Benedict Anderson is an independent scholar and practices in design, architecture, and public art. He has held academic and professorial positions in many different universities, lectured extensively as an invited speaker, and exhibited in major exhibitions around the world. His previous books for Routledge are Buried City, Unearthing Teufelsberg: Berlin and Its Geography of Forgetting (2017), The City in Geography: Renaturing the Built Environment (2019), and The City in Transgression: Human Mobility and Resistance in the 21st Century (2020).