This is London: life and death in a world city

In 'This is London', Ben Judah offers a raw, exciting perspective on a multicultural world city - what it is like to live, work, grow up, raise children, love, grow old and die there. In ten years, London - Judah's birthplace - has changed dramatically. Contemporary London is a city of immigrants. More than a third of Londoners were born across the border. People from literally all corners of the world have ended up there, with dreams of work and progress. For many, these dreams do not come true. This has had an indelible effect on the city, both positive and negative.
Judah immerses himself in the world of immigrants, illegals, beggars, gangsters, cops and shady traders. He dines with oligarchs, sleeps under the open sky and works on construction sites. The stories he records are sometimes of a heartbreaking hopelessness, but also testify to great compassion.
The development Judah outlines is not limited to London, it is the future of every major European city.