Living in the endless city - the book

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The city is the subject of the 21st century. All over the world, populations are shifting towards urban centres. Living in the Endless City depicts an authoritative survey of cities of today and the prospects for our urban future of tomorrow. 36 contributors from across Europe, South America, China, Africa and the U.S. set the agenda for the city - detailing its successes as well as its failures. Read more on the publisher's website.

The book has been launched at the LSE on 6th of June 2011 and it can be ordered online.

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Living in the Endless City

Edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
Publication date: June 2011
Hardback, 245 x 210 mm, 432 pages, 300 colour illustrations.

Selected contributors

Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Teresa Caldeira, Gerald Frug, Gareth Jones, Çağlar Keyder, Justin McGuirk, Rahul Mehrotra, Suketu Mehta, Hashim Sarkis, Saskia Sassen, David Satterthwaite, Richard Sennett, Nicholas Stern, Ilhan Tekeli.

Press

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Images

Istanbul’s heart still reflects an older form of urbanism. Confronting the future of the Endless City: Istanbul's expanding suburbs. Beyond the high-rise city, religious festivals regularly transform Mumbai's waterfront. When the classrooms flooded, schools took to the street. São Paulo’s flourishing city-centre street market. Tower blocks for São Paolo’s new elites with swimming pools on private terraces overlook the precarious houses of the Paraisópolis favela, many without running water or basic sanitation.

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