The Language of Cities

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The latest addition to the Design series, from the Director of the Design Museum We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design, whether of buildings or of space. Erudite and entertaining, he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners, Muscovites, or Mumbaikars than in our national identities.

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A deeply original and necessary bookAlain de Botton

An indispensable guide to what makes a city a cityRobert Bevan, Evening Standard

Deyan Sudjic remains one of our most insightful commentatorsRoyal Academy magazine

A small, readable guide to what cities are and how they workEdwin Heathcote, Financial Times

A memoir and a master class in musing on modern design . . . It's a collection of thoughtful, absorbing essays about many aspects of modern design, a subject nobody writes better about than SudjicEvening Standard on B Is for Bauhaus

Author Bio

Deyan Sudjic is Director of the Design Museum. He was born in London, and studied architecture in Edinburgh. He has worked as a critic for the Observer and The Sunday Times, as the editor of Domus in Milan, as the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale, and as a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. He is the author of B is for Bauhaus, The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex.