Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

Moore, Rowan

 
9781447270201: Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1447270207 ISBN 13: 9781447270201
Verlag: Picador, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

With a new introduction for the paperback.

London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril.

London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea that the free market alone can build a city, a fantastical wealth machine that denies too many of its citizens a decent home or living.

In this thought-provoking, fearless, funny and subversive book, Rowan Moore shows how London’s strength depends on the creative and mutual interplay of three forces: people, business and state. To find responses to the challenges of the twenty-first century, London must rediscover its genius for popular action and bold public intervention.

The global city above all others, London is the best place to understand the way the world’s cities are changing. It could also be, in the shape of a living, churning city of more than eight million people, the most powerful counter-argument to the extremist politics of the present.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rowan Moore is the architecture critic for the Observer and previously for the Evening Standard. He is also a
trained architect, and was formerly the Director of the Architecture Foundation. His award-winning book Why We Build was published by Picador in 2012. In 2014 he was named Critic of the Year by the UK Press Awards.

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Verlag
Picador
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1447270207
ISBN 13 
9781447270201
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
560
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