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Book SynopsisShort, accessibly written essays make the case for cities, arguing that the metropolitan mindset is essential to the struggle for human liberation.
Trade Review'Out from under the dead weight of conventional wisdom and eco-gloom emerges a clear-eyed vision of cities that is celebrated in this book' -- Matt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist (2010)
'This book opens a debate as it allows the readers to reconsider their own prejudices and preferences' -- Will Alsop, OBE, architect and adjunct professor, Ontario College of Art and Design
'Timely, lucid and provocative' -- Tim Marlow, broadcaster and director of Exhibitions at White Cube in London
'This collection breaks some unconventional ground, a welcome event given the grip of orthodoxy about cities so mindlessly accepted today' -- Joel Kotkin, author of The City: A Global History (2005)
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Paradoxical City by Alastair Donald
1. The Dynamic City: Citizens Make Cities by Alan Hudson
2. The Emerging City: Africa’s Metropolitan Mindset by Alastair Donald
3. The Crowded City: People on the Move by Patrick Hayes
4. The Planned City: Make No Little Plans by Michael Owens
5. The Historic City: False Urban Memory Syndrome by Steve Nash and Austin Williams
6. The Sanitised City: If You’ve Done Nothing Wrong… by Tony Pierce and Austin Williams
7. The Eco-City: Utopia, Then and Now by Austin Williams
8. The Visionary City: Things Will Endure Less than Us by Austin Williams and Karl Sharro
Conclusion: The Civilised City by Austin Williams
