Book: Putting people back at the heart of cities
The Lure of the City: From Slums to Suburbs [Paperback]
Edited by Austin Williams and Alastair Donald
Pluto Press, September 2011
224 pages
Edited by Austin Williams and Alastair Donald
Pluto Press, September 2011
224 pages
Review by Spiked:
A new collection of essays challenges both pessimists who see urbanisation as a human disaster and eco-footprint obsessives who want to corral as many people into towns as possible.
“What is refreshing about The Lure of the City is that it puts people – not the planet or the expert – centre stage. From this, the ambition – the urgent demand – to transform the world to meet the aspirations of billions of new city dwellers rightly flows.”