Nearly five million readers have visited the BLDGBLOG Web site since its inception in 2004 for stories about the past news about the present and speculation about the future of how humans shape their environment. The site provides intriguing details from the fringes of contemporary architectural practice in an accessible thought-provoking and highly entertaining manner. Here author Geoff Manaugh presents his insights in book form combining history urban exploration science fiction design climate change and city planning with the view that everything is relevant to architecture. With five captivating and colorfully illustrated chapters The BLDGBLOG Book is sure to delight and inspire the builder the thinker and the visionary in all of us.