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Slow Burn City
London in the Twenty-First Century
Taschenbuch von Rowan Moore
Sprache: Englisch

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'There is a great argument in this book - and an important one' Sunday Times

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.

'Full of intriguing facts, always beautifully written . . . Rowan Moore should be Mayor' Alain de Botton

'I'd heartily recommend Rowan Moore's brilliant Slow Burn City' Rohan Silva, Guardian Books of the Year

'There is a great argument in this book - and an important one' Sunday Times

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.

'Full of intriguing facts, always beautifully written . . . Rowan Moore should be Mayor' Alain de Botton

'I'd heartily recommend Rowan Moore's brilliant Slow Burn City' Rohan Silva, Guardian Books of the Year

Über 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.

Zusammenfassung
'A political book in the best sense - helping us to imagine a better world, reminding us that ideas shape how we live and plotting a better future for London . . . full of intriguing facts, always beautifully written . . . Rowan Moore should be Mayor' Alain De Botton
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781447270201
ISBN-10: 1447270207
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Moore, Rowan
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Maße: 198 x 131 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Rowan Moore
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.03.2017
Gewicht: 0,454 kg
Artikel-ID: 107526274
Über 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.

Zusammenfassung
'A political book in the best sense - helping us to imagine a better world, reminding us that ideas shape how we live and plotting a better future for London . . . full of intriguing facts, always beautifully written . . . Rowan Moore should be Mayor' Alain De Botton
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781447270201
ISBN-10: 1447270207
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Moore, Rowan
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Maße: 198 x 131 x 40 mm
Von/Mit: Rowan Moore
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.03.2017
Gewicht: 0,454 kg
Artikel-ID: 107526274
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