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Book Review: Endless City

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Books & Periodicals

The Endless City (2008) edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic
Phaidon Press
Hardcover, 512 pages

The stats on the cover of Phaidon’s recent tome to expanding global urbanism paint a picture of what many people know but what many people don’t want to believe: the world is primarily urban and it’s becoming more so every day, from [...]



Book Review: Building London & Paris 2000+

By Ty Wenzel • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Architecture, Books & Periodicals

Building London: The Making of a Modern Metropolis (2008) by Bruce Marshall
Universe
Hardcover, 304 pages
Paris 2000+: New Architecture (2007) by Sam Lubell
Monacelli Press
Hardcover, 240 pages

These two image-drenched coffee table books focus on what can be seen as Europe’s two most cosmopolitan cities, using photographs to tell the story of London and Paris, each in its own [...]