The 100 Mile City

by Deyan Sudjic, Philip Sayer (Photographer)

The new architectural shape of five world cities-London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. Sudjic tells how cities grow and change through their buildings and how people live and work in them. "Written with all the pace and drive of a high-speed freeway... Powerful and convincing" (J. G. Ballard). Index; photographs by Phil Sayer.

Genres: Architecture, Urbanism, Cities, Nonfiction

313 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1993

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Kristin · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was part of a college course curriculum in the 90s. We never read it, and I held onto it to "read eventually."
25 years later, it is too late.
If you are looking for a book to teach you about 21st Century cities, this book is entirely useless.
If, however, you are looking for a snapshot in time to illustrate how hindsight is 20/20 - how assumptions and prognostications could be so, so wrong - then this is a great study in learning not to put too much weight on theories of the moment and predictions for the future.

Did not finish due to lack of relevance.