He is also co-editor of "The Endless City" (2007), "Living in the Endless City" (2011) and "Transforming Urban Economies" (2013).Are cities getting bigger?At the moment 54% of the world's population live in cities.
Endless City, edited by Ricky Burdett and Deyan Sudjic, is published by Phaidon next week at £35.
"There have been seemingly endless city requests for construction changes," he said, "and endless red tape that thwarted the development's progress".
The nature of cities has already changed irrevocably and in The Endless City, there is plenty of evidence to show that they are changing us.
You will after flipping through "The Endless City" (Phaidon), a chronicle of the unprecedented shift towards urban living that the world has been experiencing since the early 20th century.
ENDLESS CITY Projected completion: unknown Location: London, UK Cost: Unknown Height: 300 metres Floors: Unknown The Endless City might look like a wobbly multi-tiered sandwich, but in reality it is a vision for the future, envisaging indoor parks, retail areas and private apartments within a 'vertical street' to create a true community.
The results of all this have been boiled down to The Endless City, a 500-page doorstep of a book I edited with Ricky Burdett and which is published this week.
When I find one again, it's that two o'clock in the morning, a grim hotel on a square, the impenetrable maze of an endless city, when, really alone for the first time in my life, I found myself leaning from the window, incanting in a tearing whisper what I thought were poems.
By 2050, these megacities are expected to merge into dozens of megaregions, like Hong Kong-Shenhzen-Guangzhou Kong-Shenhzen-Guangzhou Kong-Shenhzen-Guangzhouing in an endless Chinaskyline.
Living in the Endless City.
