london has been hiding from the larger cities for years, in the hills, its now restarting and getting back in the hunt, eating up smaller towns and villages etc... but still cautious of the larger engines like L.A, New York, Washington. in this book all the countries are machines, the way it works is that towns eat houses, villages eat towns, cities eat villages,and states eat cities. its a really good book, and was chosen book of the year, READ IT.