How to Build a City

Journeys into the Urban Future
A globe-trotting exploration into the towns and cities at the frontiers of urban living

'Ambitious and engaging' THE SPECTATOR

'Lyrically readable yet highly informative . a story of resilience, strength and humanity's innate resourcefulness' DAILY MAIL

'A thoughtful, open-hearted, deeply reported book about what we need to live' CAL FLYN

A moveable city in the Arctic Circle. Tower blocks tackling loneliness in Tokyo. Helsinki's sprawling underground metropolis. And Ukraine's bomb-resistant bedrooms. These places, and many more, are among the strange and dazzling solutions responding to our uncertain world.

Gabriella Bennett takes readers on a globe-trotting journey to learn how we are reimagining home and embracing the challenges of contemporary living. From political instability to wildfires, flooding and an increased pressure on materials and space, the built environment is under threat like never before. It must change - and it is. We'll travel to the frontier cities of this urban revolution and discover how people are transforming their communities in surprising ways.

Celebrating human ingenuity and resilience, How to Build a City is a remarkable investigation into where we'll live and why it matters.

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