This is the first monograph on British artist Paul Noble. It focuses on his monumental eight-year project, the meticulous depiction of a fictional city called Nobson Newtown. The origins of this 'exercise in self-portraiture via town planning' lie in the painstaking design of a special font based on the forms of classic modernist architecture. Variously described as '3-D Scrabble tiles' or 'Lego blocks', Noble's pictograms name the buildings that they depict. From the hospital (Nobspital) to the cemetery (Nobsend) via the town centre (Nobson Central) or the Mall, citations from Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, Gerard Winstanley's letters to Oliver Cromwell or T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland are camouflaged within the fields, the trees or the brickwork. Noble's project embodies a complex infrastructure of civil planning, social policies and historical perspectives. Includes an artist's 'scrap book' section, an illustrated chronology and bibliography.