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The giant city is the enduring figure of modernity, and the inter Simon Sadler is Professor
of Architectural and Urban
disciplinary topic par excellence in the humanities and social sciences History at the University
in the last two decades. For much of that time it has been the site of California, Davis.
for an intellectual and ideological tussle between those analyzing the sjsadler@ucdavis.edu
city as the political economy writ large, and those reading the city as
the crucible of identity.
The Endless City synthesizes both approaches, and for that
reason alone represents an important contribution to the dialectic
of urban studies. Further, it prioritizes questions of policy over
theory, demanding, by its alarming orange cover, its lap-crushing
unwieldiness, and its sheer institutional clout, that decision-makers
take notice. Edited at one of the world’s leading academic centers
for the study of political economy, the London School of Economics,
and sponsored by the Alfred Herrhausen Society, a think-tank of the
Deutsche Bank, The Endless City represents the published findings
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