Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-first Century - Brossura

Moore knows London better than most. There is a great argument in this book - and an important one (Sunday Times)

Rowan Moore's Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century is an architectural study in the noble tradition of Ian Nairn: a vivid, knowledgable, argumentative tour of a city changing perhaps faster than at any time in its history (David Kynaston, Observer)

A political book in the best sense - helping us to imagine a better world, reminding us that ideas shape how we live and plotting a better future for London. It's also full of intriguing facts, always beautifully written and adventurously illustrated. Rowan Moore should be Mayor (Alain De Botton)

Offers a tour of our streets that will make you look at London in a new light . . . Moore's book is impressive for what he is saying, and the way he says it . . . He gives the reader a new understanding of our metropolis (Camden New Journal)

Moore can't be bettered . . . brilliant (Country Life)

Fun to read, packed with entertaining asides and spiced with waspish invective . . . (Oldie Review of Books)

Each chapter of Rowan Moore's book is a striking architectural set piece . . . Moore writes persuasively on public spaces and the increasing, troubling tendency to keep the public out of them . . . [he] is at his best examininig why certain public spaces have worked, why we flock to them and find them congenial and welcoming . . . [his] portraits of individual buildings have great verve (Times Literary Supplement)

Devastatingly funny if deeply disturbing . . . No other newspaper architecture critic [is] as sharp an assessor of the built environment as Moore (New York Review of Books)

An eloquent, sweeping history-cum polemic (Literary Review)

One of the UK's most accomplished writers on the profession, he critiques the most important buildings and the people who masterminded them with a style that is both entertaining and cuts through the crap (Observer)

‘A political book in the best sense – helping us to imagine a better world, reminding us that ideas shape how we live and plotting a better future for London . . . full of intriguing facts, always beautifully written . . . Rowan Moore should be Mayor’ Alain De Botton