Stephen Cairns is Programme Director of the Future Cities Laboratory at the Singapore-ETH Centre. Jane M. Jacobs is Director of the Division of Social Sciencesand Professor of Urban Studies at Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
Imagine a book on world leaders that looks at how they died, rather than their accomplishments, for an explanation of why the book's subtitle acknowledges that this perspective is 'perverse'. Despite and perhaps even because of these quirks, Buildings Must Die has the freshness of a project that takes a field and turns it on its head -- or, perhaps, blows it up. * Times Higher Education *