Slow Burn City
10 March 2016
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
With a new introduction for the paperback.
London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril.
London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea...
Details
10 March 2016
256 pages
9781447270195
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Moore knows London better than most. There is a great argument in this book - and an important oneSunday Times
Rowan Moore's Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century is an architectural study in the noble tradition of Ian Nairn: a vivid, knowledgable, argumentative tour of a city changing perhaps faster than at any time in its historyDavid Kynaston, Observer
A political book in the best sense - helping us to imagine a better world, reminding us that ideas shape how we live and plotting a better future for London. It's also full of intriguing facts, always beautifully written and adventurously illustrated. Rowan Moore should be MayorAlain De Botton
Offers a tour of our streets that will make you look at London in a new light . . . Moore's book is impressive for what he is saying, and the way he says it . . . He gives the reader a new understanding of our metropolisCamden New Journal