The endless city : the urban age project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society / edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic.

Published in collaboration with the London School of Economics.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 504-506) and index.

Foreword / Wolfgang Nowak -- The Urban Age Project / Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode -- Theory, Policy and Practice / Deyan Sudjic -- Cities -- The Urbanization of the World / Edward Soja and Miguel Kanai -- New York City -- Finding its Nerve / Deyan Sudjic -- Behind the Boom / Susan Fainstein -- An Urban Age in a Suburban Nation? / Bruce Katz and Andy Altman -- Shanghai -- The Speed and the Friction / Deyan Sudjic -- The Urban Laboratory / Xiangming Chen -- China's New Revolution / Xiangming Chen -- London -- Governing the Ungovernable / Deyan Sudjic -- The Capital of Suburbia / Ricky Burdett -- Towards a Europe of Cities / Tony Travers -- The European City Model / Joan Clos -- Mexico City -- Back from the Brink / Deyan Sudjic -- After the Explosion / Jose Castillo -- Makeshift Globalization / Nestor Canclini -- Johannesburg -- The View from Outside / Deyan Sudjic -- Recovering from Apartheid / Lindsay Bremner -- African Urbanism / Caroline Kihato -- Berlin -- Looking for a New Future / Deyan Sudjic -- The Stunted Metropolis / Franziska Eichstadt-Bohlig -- The German System / Dieter Lapple -- Data: A statistical analysis of the six Urban Age cities -- Issues -- Seeing Like a City / Saskia Sassen -- The Open City / Richard Sennett -- Designing Government / Gerald Frug -- Politics, Power, Cities / Enrique Penalosa -- In Search of Authenticity / Rem Koolhaas -- The Particular and the Generic / Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron -- The Death and Life of the Urban Office / Frank Duffy -- How Roads Kill Cities / Hermann Knoflacher, Philipp Rode and Geetam Tiwari -- Informality and its Discontents / Geetam Tiwari -- Confronting Fear / Sophie Body-Gendrot -- At Home in the City / Anne Power -- Towards a Carbon Neutral London / Nicky Gavron -- Sustainable Cities / Guy Battle -- A Taxonomy of Towers / Alejandro Zaera-Polo -- Interventions -- From Theory Into Practice: An exploration of 20 projects demonstrating new urban thinking in the six Urban Age cities / Sarah Ichoika -- Positions -- An Agenda for the Urban Age / Bruce Katz, Andy Altman and Julie Wagner.

"At the turn of the twenty-first century, the world is faced with an unprecedented challenge. It must address a fundamental shift in the world's population towards the cities, and away from mankind's rural roots. Over the course of two years, a group of internationally renowned professionals from a variety of different disciplines and backgrounds gathered together in six world cities to take stock of the new urban condition and to offer an approach to dealing with it. The result was a sometimes passionate, always challenging and informed debate on how architects, urbanists, politicians and policy makers can constructively plan the infrastructure and development of the endless city, to promote a better social and economic life for its citizens."--BOOK JACKET.