City Worlds presents both an overview and the core of the argument in the Understanding Cities series. Using an integrated and interactive text City Worlds draws on our spatial imaginations to prompt a distinctive understanding of cities.

For the first time in history, half of the worlds population is living in cities, and not just in cities but in mega-cities. Never before have we confronted such a geography of the world's people. It is a phenomenon which holds out enormous possibilities and at the same time poses problems, on a scale unknown befoe, of social organization, democracy and sustainability. Drawing...(展开全部)

Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the ...(展开全部)

The only city situated on two continents, Constantinople has always been both meeting-place and battlefield. Constantinople: City of the World’s Desire describes the city and its dual role when it was the capital of the Ottoman Sultans, dominating an empire which at its height stretched from Morocco to Russia and from the Danube to the Persian Gulf. At once scholarly and entert...(展开全部)

（不得不承认，这真的很像命运石之门）每个人做完事情之后都会产生后果，然而在做这件事之前和过程中，结果是无法确定的。而所诞生的结果，也就是你所在的世界，然而这样会在“世界架”中诞生出两个世界。现在，世界架已经接近承受的极限，而主角被卷入了被选...

（不得不承认，这真的很像命运石之门）每个人做完事情之后都会产生后果，然而在做这件事之前和过程中，结果是无法确定的。而所诞生的结果，也就是你所在的世界，然而这样会在“世界架”中诞生出两个世界。现在，世界架已经接近承受的极限，而主角被卷入了被选...

The city is Beszel, a rundown metropolis on the eastern edge of Europe. The other city is Ul Qoma, a modern Eastern European boomtown, despite being a bit of an international pariah. What the two cities share, and what they don't, is the deliciously evocative conundrum at the heart of China Mieville's The City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbani...(展开全部)

We need to understand the impossible. Francesco Berto and Mark Jago start by considering what the concepts of meaning, information, knowledge, belief, fiction, conditionality, and counterfactual supposition have in common. They are all concepts which divide the world up more finely than logic does. Logically equivalent sentences may carry different meanings and information and ...(展开全部)

In Plantation Worlds, Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations. Drawing on long-term research spanning fifteen years, Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of both people and elephants amidst tea plantations in the Indian state of Assam. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, n...(展开全部)