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.
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.
Completes Phaidon's Endless City series, with the same mix of smart writing, evocative photographs and incisive data as its predecessors - With contributions from educators, authors, architects and city officials, including Deyan Sudjic, Saskia Sassen, Jo da Silva, and Richard Sennett - Underscores the importance of architecture and urban planning in securing the future of our cities - Addresses vital themes, from social inclusion to climate change, looking at the problems that face contemporary cities and giving actionable solutions - The go-to resource for urban professionals in the field, as well as those interested in urban issues - Based on the Urban Age conferences, held by LSE since 2005
