"Since 2005, the London School of Economics and Duetsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society - together with maors, city planners, state governments, architects, scientists, community groups and committed local people - have studied growing, and in some cases shrinking, cities of the twenty-first centuryThe Endless city, published in 2007, described the outcome of the first two years of collaboration. This book ... covers the following three." - foreword.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 414-416) and index.

Introduction : Foreword / Wolfgang Nowak -- Living in the urban age / Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode -- The architecture of the endless city / Deyan Sudjic -- The economics of cities / Saskia Sassen -- Cities : Mumbai : Managed chaos / Deyan Sudjic ; Democracy and self-interest / K.C. Sivaramakrishnan ; A matter of people / Darryl D'Monte ; Looking for the bird of gold / Suketu Mehta ; The static and the kinetic / Rahul Mehrotra ; The long view / Charles Correa ; Beyond the maximum / Geetam Tiwari -- S©Đo Paulo : The urban giant / Deyan Sudjic ; Filling the political vacuum / Jeroen Klink ; The cultures of the metropolis / Gareth A. Jones ; Looking for a shared identity / Jos©♭ de Souza Martins ; Worlds set apart / Teresa Caldeira ; The mirage and its limits / Raul Juste Lores ; Living on the edge / Fernando de Mello Franco -- Istanbul : The city to big to fail / Deyan Sudjic ; Bridging histories / ©џlhan Tekeli ; The hinge city / Richard Sennett ; It's Istanbul (not globalization) / Hashim Sarkis ; The violence of change / Asu Aksoy ; The contours of concrete / ©ئmer Kanipak ; Measuring success / ©јaßʹler Keyder -- Data : Vital statistics: nine cities compared ; Understanding the numbers / Justin McGuirk ; Understanding what people think / Tony Travers -- Reflections : Boundaries and borders / Richard Sennett ; No frills and bare life / Alejandro Zaera-Polo ; City solutions to global problems / Nicholas Stern, Dimitri Zenghelis and Philipp Rode ; Democracy and governance / Gerald E. Frug ; The urban earthquake / Anthony Williams ; Uneven landscapes / Sophie Body-Gendrot ; From utopia to youtopia / Alejandro Aravena ; Surviving in an urban age / David Satterthwaite ; Getting to work / Fabio Casiroli ; Facing the metro challenge / Bruce Katz ; On the ground / Adam Kaasa with Marcos Rosa and Priya Shankar.