London has become the global city above all others. Money from all over the world flows through it; its land and homes are tradable commodities; it is a nexus for the world's migrant populations, rich and poor. Versions of what is happening in London are happening elsewhere, but London has become the best place to understand the way the world's cities are changing. Some of the transformations London has undergone were creative, others were destructive; this is not new. London has always been a city of trade, exploitation and opportunity. But London has an equal history of public interventions, including the Clean Air Act, the invention of the green belt and council housing, and the innovation of the sewers and embankments that removed the threat of cholera. In each case the response was creative and unprecedented; they were also huge in scale and often controversial. The city must change, of course, but Moore explains why it should do so with a 'slow burn', through the interplay of private investment, public good and legislative action. Fiercely intelligent, thoughtprovoking, lucidly written and often outrageously and uncomfortably funny, Slow Burn City is packed with fascinating stories about the physical fabric of London in the twentyfirst century. But by seeing this fabric as the theatre of social and cultural struggles, Moore connects the political and architectural decisions of London's enfeebled and reactive government with the built environment that affects its inhabitants' everyday lives. In this urgent and necessary book, Moore makes a passionate case for London to invent new ways to respond to the pressures of the present, from which other cities could learn.
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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 Mayor (Alain De Botton)
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 history (David Kynaston, Observer)
Moore knows London better than most. There is a great argument in this book - and an important one (Sunday Times)
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 metropolis (Camden New Journal)
Moore can't be bettered . . . brilliant (Country Life)
Fun to read, packed with entertaining asides and spiced with waspish invective . . . (Oldie Review of Books)
Each chapter of Rowan Moore's book is a striking architectural set piece . . . Moore writes persuasively on public spaces and the increasing, troubling tendency to keep the public out of them . . . [he] is at his best examininig why certain public spaces have worked, why we flock to them and find them congenial and welcoming . . . [his] portraits of individual buildings have great verve (Times Literary Supplement)
Devastatingly funny if deeply disturbing . . . No other newspaper architecture critic [is] as sharp an assessor of the built environment as Moore (New York Review of Books)
An eloquent, sweeping history-cum polemic (Literary Review)
One of the UK's most accomplished writers on the profession, he critiques the most important buildings and the people who masterminded them with a style that is both entertaining and cuts through the crap (Observer)
A provocative, brilliant and humane new book from 'one of our most intelligent architecture critics' (Daily Telegraph).
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