Slow Burn City

Moore knows London better than most. There is a great argument in this book - and an important one * Sunday Times *
Rowan Moore's Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century is an architectural study in the noble tradition of Ian Nairn: a vivid, knowledgable, argumentative tour of a city changing perhaps faster than at any time in its history * David Kynaston, Observer *
A political book in the best sense - helping us to imagine a better world, reminding us that ideas shape how we live and plotting a better future for London. It's also full of intriguing facts, always beautifully written and adventurously illustrated. Rowan Moore should be Mayor -- Alain De Botton
Offers a tour of our streets that will make you look at London in a new light . . . Moore's book is impressive for what he is saying, and the way he says it . . . He gives the reader a new understanding of our metropolis * Camden New Journal *
Moore can't be bettered . . . brilliant * Country Life *
Fun to read, packed with entertaining asides and spiced with waspish invective . . . * Oldie Review of Books *
Each chapter of Rowan Moore's book is a striking architectural set piece . . . Moore writes persuasively on public spaces and the increasing, troubling tendency to keep the public out of them . . . [he] is at his best examininig why certain public spaces have worked, why we flock to them and find them congenial and welcoming . . . [his] portraits of individual buildings have great verve * Times Literary Supplement *
Devastatingly funny if deeply disturbing . . . No other newspaper architecture critic [is] as sharp an assessor of the built environment as Moore * New York Review of Books *
An eloquent, sweeping history-cum polemic * Literary Review *
One of the UK's most accomplished writers on the profession, he critiques the most important buildings and the people who masterminded them with a style that is both entertaining and cuts through the crap * Observer *
A subtle, often eccentric but always entertaining guide * Literary Review *
Moore decrypts the ideological narratives of buildings with the same fluency he brings to bear on materials, forms and spaces: today's architectural criticism rarely seems so humane or intelligent * Daily Telegraph *
Moore has a lot to offer those who like verbal flexibility and thought-provoking aphorisms. There is also a sense of mischief . . . if famous architects were a coconut shy, Moore would go home with the giant teddy * Sunday Telegraph *
Moore writes with economy, clarity and wit -- Will Wiles * Building Design *