Contents

1. What is a City

2. How to Make a City

3. How to Change a City

4. The Government of Cities

5. The Idea of a City

6. Crowds and Their Discontents

Bibliography

Picture Credits

Acknowledgements

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With a population small enough to fit comfortably into the bottom third of a New York skyscraper, Hope, Arkansas, is a city in name only. It still managed to become the birthplace of a US president, Bill Clinton.

Deyan Sudjic


THE LANGUAGE OF CITIES

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First published by Allen Lane 2016

Published in Penguin Books 2017

Copyright © Deyan Sudjic, 2016

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ISBN: 978-0-241-18805-7