Several hundred pairs of 
photographs reproduced facing each other across  the pages of this glossy coffee table book, selected and arranged by  journalist Fred Pearce to illustrate how landscapes and cityscapes from  around the world have changed in the last 100 years. 
The concept is  simple, no doubt, but is bound to evoke a complex range of responses  from readers. On the one hand, flipping through some of the pages is a  bit like browsing through an album of old 
family high resolution stock photos where the faces  are recognizable, but the styles and settings are curiously  uncomfortable and sometimes out of date. A photograph from 1925 of Ginza  of Tokyo shows only a few multi-story buildings flanking a street  crowded with cars. Across the top is Ginza today, the facades of glass  and steel towers showing signs advertising lights and shop awnings.