How to Build a City
Journeys into the Urban Future
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How to Build a City
Narrated by:
Gabriella Bennett
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Gabriella Bennett
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 to embrace 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.©2026 Gabriella Bennett (P)2026 Headline Publishing Group Limited
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Critic reviews
A thoughtful, open-hearted, deeply reported book about what we need to live. In How To Build A City, Bennett roams the world in search of answers to some of the most profound questions of our present and our future. She offers us thrilling, kaleidoscopic glimpses of lives lived in brave new ways-and the community and forethought it takes to get there (Cal Flyn, bestselling author of Islands of Abandonment)
A fascinating and compassionate book about the lives we build and rebuild - and the places we come to call home (Peter Ross, bestselling author of Upon a White Horse)
In this illuminating, heartfelt and perceptive book, Gabriella Bennett explores how urban communities are responding to the dangers that threaten their settled lives. From those who are experiencing the terrors of war and displacement, to others facing ecological disaster or increasing social isolation, she gathers stories of resilience, aspiration and perseverance [...] underlying all her encounters, is the essential and universal truth that our social and emotional well being is dependent on our sense of home (Clare Hunter)
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