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| A magisterial exploration of the nature of the city from its beginnings to the mega-conurbations of today. |
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ISBN : 9780099284260
Author ID : 419
Author : John Reader
Binding : Paperback
Format : B Format
Imprint : Vintage
Publication Date: 01/09/2005
Extent : 384
Dimensions : 129 x 198 mm.
Description : Cities is a fascinating exploration of the nature of the city and city life, of its structures, development and inhabitants. From the ruins of the earliest cities to the present, Reader explores how cities coalesce, develop and thrive, how they can decline and die, how they remake themselves. He investigates their parasitic relationship with the countryside around them, the webs of trade and immigration they rely upon to survive, how they feed and water themselves and dispose of their wastes. It is a sweeping exploration of what the city is and has been, fit to stand alongside Lewis Mumford''''s 1962 classic The City in History.
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