Shaping Cities in an Urban Age

Ricky Burdett, Philipp Rode

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Phaidon Press Ltd
28 September 2018

Architectural structure & design; City & town planning - architectural aspects

SHAPING CITIES IN AN URBAN AGE is the third and final addition to Phaidon's hugely successful Endless City series, published in collaboration with the London School of Economics (LSE). Generously illustrated with photographs, visual data, and statistics, and featuring a series of essays written by leading people in their fields, Shaping Cities addresses our most urgent contemporary and future urban issues by examining a set of key forces that have combined to create the city as we know it today.

By: Ricky Burdett, Philipp Rode
Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 245mm, Width: 210mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 2.192kg
ISBN: 9780714877280
ISBN 10: 071487728X
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 28 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ricky Burdett is professor of Urban Studies at the London School of Economics (LSE), and director of LSE Cities. He curated the International Architecture Exhibition at the 2006 Venice Biennale, was architectural adviser to the Mayor of London from 2001-06, and was chief advisor on architecture and urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics. Philipp Rode is executive director of LSE Cities and an associate professorial research fellow at LSE.

Reviews for Shaping Cities in an Urban Age

As resourceful for architects and policy-makers as it is for anyone interested in how we live now... It enlightens on everything from climate to crime to culture. As a data-driven study, it has a proven takeaway: civic participation is key to defining metropolitan problems while design is key to providing the right solutions. -Aesthetica