Shaping Cities in an Urban Age

Name: Shaping Cities in an Urban Age
Brand: Hachette Australia
SKU: 9780714877280
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By Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode

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Shaping Cities in an Urban Age is the final volume in Phaidon's acclaimed Endless City series, created in partnership with the London School of Economics (LSE). This richly illustrated work combines photography, visual data, and statistics with insightful essays from leading experts, exploring the critical forces that have shaped modern urban environments. It confronts pressing contemporary and future challenges in city development, offering a comprehensive examination of how cities function and evolve today.
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This book is ideal for urban planners, architects, policy-makers, students of urban studies, and all readers curious about the forces shaping modern cities and their future.

An authoritative - and fascinating - investigation into the spatial and social dynamics of cities at a global scale

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Shaping Cities in an Urban Age is the third and final addition to Phaidon's hugely successful Endless City series, published in collaboration with the London School of Economics (LSE).

Generously illustrated with photographs, visual data, and statistics, and featuring a series of essays written by leading people in their fields, Shaping Cities addresses our most urgent contemporary and future urban issues by examining a set of key forces that have combined to create the city as we know it today.

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Aesthetica praises the book as "resourceful for architects and policy-makers as well as anyone interested in contemporary urban life," highlighting its insightful coverage of topics from climate to crime and culture. The review emphasises the book's data-driven approach, showing that civic participation is vital for identifying metropolitan issues, while good design provides effective solutions.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780714877280

Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 September 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 46.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 245.0mm

Weight: 2192g

Pages: 448

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Philipp Rode Ricky Burdett

About the Author

Ricky Burdett is professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics (LSE), and director of LSE Cities. He curated the International Architecture Exhibition at the 2006 Venice Biennale, was architectural adviser to the Mayor of London from 2001-06, and was chief advisor on architecture and urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics. Philipp Rode is executive director of LSE Cities and an associate professorial research fellow at LSE.