The City and the World Spawn and investments in response to

and investments in response to perceived shifts in relative power

this time she will be the one who disappears

' DALAI LAMA 'We grow in kindness when our kindness is tested

Jonathan Sumption tells the story of the collapse of the English dream of conquest

Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress

The City and the World Spawn and investments in response toIn The City and the World, Gregor Hens explores the city in the twenty first century a space we shape and are shaped by in turn and our place within it. Travelling from Berlin to Las Vegas, Shenzhen to Santiago de Chile, he moves through these pulsing, ever expanding cityscapes, reading, walking, swimming, riding the metro and catching the bus, bearing witness to the strange vitality of urban life. Everywhere, catalysts for new understandings emerge.