Living in the Endless City

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In 2050, over three quarters of the world's population will live in cities. This follow-up to Phaidon's successful THE ENDLESS CITYis a close look at the issues that affect cities, and thus human life across the globe in the twenty-first century. Based on a series of conferences held by the London School of Economics, Living in the Endless City examines Mumbai, Sao Paolo and Istanbul through a series of essays by global scholars and thinkers, photographs illustrating key aspects of life in the three cities, and compellingly presented analytical data.

Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), director of LSE Cities and the Urban Age programme. He has worked as Chief Adviser on Architecture and Urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics, as architectural adviser to the Mayor of London and currently advises the Olympic Park Legacy Company. He was Director of the 2006 Architecture Biennale in Venice and currently advises the cities of Genova and Parma, and is a member of the Milan Expo 2015 masterplan team.

."..essential reading...few books do as good a job at articulating the scope of challenges today's cities face."-" The Wall Street Journal" 'there is urgent need for exactly the kind of discussion and research into 21st-century demographics and living conditions undertaken by the Urban Age project, a series of conferences part-hosted by the London School of Economics. Living in The Endless City which details and analyses the conferences' findings, is also thoroughly illustrated with striking, evocative, sometimes shocking images of Mumbai, Istanbul and Sao Paulo.' The Independent on Sunday, 5 June 2011 '[a] valuable insight into our potential urban futures' Stylus.com, June 2011 'Sao Paulo, Mumbai and Istanbul foretell humanity's urban endgames - Through a series of informed essays, graphs and statistics, Living in the Endless City highlights the challenges - both hidden and visible - not for these three cities, but also, by extension, for mankind.' Shumon Basar, Tank, June 2011 'delivers the shock and awe of imposing statistics - striking insights and facts' Rowan Moore, The Observer, 19 June 2011 'fascinating ... A wonderful book for everyone interested in urban development and environmental limits.' The Environmentalist, August 2011 'fascinating insights into the development of urbanism around the world.' P. D. Smith, TLS (Times Literary Supplement), 10 February 2012