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."..essential reading...few books do as good a job at articulating the scope of challenges today's cities face."-" The Wall Street Journal"
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The companion of Phaidon's popular The Endless City, Living in the Endless City will add the cities of Mumbai, Sao Paulo and Istanbul to the six cities of the first volume with the same mix of compelling photographs, in-depth and beautifully presented data, and smart writing by global thinkers. Each city is explored in a series of essays that address vital themes, from security to climate change, looking closely at the problems that face contemporary cities and examining a variety of solutions. Like the first book, the new one includes the best writing and information from the Urban Age project, a series of conferences held by the London School of Economics that explore vital field of urban development. Drawing on the work of scholars from all over the globe, this book will give the reader access to a wealth of ideas and data about Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Istanbul and, by extension, urban life across the globe. In addition to this close focus on each of the three cities, Living in the Endless City will feature analysis of surveys done in each city. Editors Deyan Sudjic of the Design Museum and Ricky Burdett of the LSE have also chosen the best contributors to both this book and The Endless City to write thematic essays that discuss the ideas and the lessons they have drawn across all nine cities.
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A interesting overview about megacities in the 21st century. The economical basis expressed in schematic graphic samples adds a more intriguing analysis of the urban design integrating the urbanistic traditional exposure.
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I purchased this book as an auxiliary tool for my dissertation on human geography. Although my exact subject is on quarters within the city and segregation, this amazing book proved to offer some compelling information, stats and up-to-date facts on today's social geography, how we consume and where. Undoubtedly, Deyan Sudjic is a well-known 'guru' in the field, nevertheless the work they edited is absolutely vital to anyone who wishes to have top notch data on today's world's figures. For those who would just like to indulge in a bit of charts, figures and pie charts, 100% recommended: it offers some great thoughts to process later on and it is a vital addition to anybody's general knowledge and culture.
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This book is an eye opener for everyone. It is a wake up call to the effects of our wasteful and tasteless society. It is humbling to read about Mumbai and how proud it is of having a clean and safe public toilet. Everyday things we take or demand as necessary are to those that do not, a luxury. More than ever before we are creating cities of slums and this book puts the statistics in such a way, that everyone will understand. This book is well worth the money and time to read and look at the wonderful pictures. It brings to life cities that we hear about but perhaps know very little about. For those of you doing any social science course, this book is a must read, as is the first - the endless city.
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