A kind of imaginary city-in-a-book dreamt up by Spanish artist Alicia Framis, "Wax and Jardins" brings together 28 artists, architects and writers--including Mariko Mori, Otto Berchem and members of MVRDV, among many others--in order to examine mental and physical loneliness, especially within the context of urban life and the urban landscape. The book looks into the strange dissociating effect of contemporary life, from Richard Billingham's photographs...