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The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city

We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design, whether of buildings or of space. Erudite and entertaining, he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners, Muscovites, or Mumbaikars than in our national identities.



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A deeply original and necessary book—Alain de Botton

An indispensable guide to what makes a city a city—Robert Bevan, Evening Standard

Deyan Sudjic remains one of our most insightful commentators—Royal Academy magazine

A small, readable guide to what cities are and how they work—Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times

A memoir and a master class in musing on modern design . . . It's a collection of thoughtful, absorbing essays about many aspects of modern design, a subject nobody writes better about than Sudjic—Evening Standard on B Is for Bauhaus

The Language of Cities

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 6 July 2017
      ISBN-13 9780141980591
      978-0141980591
      ISBN-10 0141980591
      Also in:
      Art & Photography City and town planning: architectural aspects Politics, Philosophy & Society Society and culture: general Urban communities / city life

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city

      We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design, whether of buildings or of space. Erudite and entertaining, he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners, Muscovites, or Mumbaikars than in our national identities.



      Trade Review
      A deeply original and necessary book—Alain de Botton

      An indispensable guide to what makes a city a city—Robert Bevan, Evening Standard

      Deyan Sudjic remains one of our most insightful commentators—Royal Academy magazine

      A small, readable guide to what cities are and how they work—Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times

      A memoir and a master class in musing on modern design . . . It's a collection of thoughtful, absorbing essays about many aspects of modern design, a subject nobody writes better about than Sudjic—Evening Standard on B Is for Bauhaus

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