查尔斯·兰德利（Charles Landry）出生于1948年，先后在英国、德国、意大利接受教育。他在1978年创立的“传通媒体”（Comedia），被誉为欧洲最具权威的文化创意规划咨询机构。多年来，兰德利与他的团队跑遍全世界，推展了无数的项目；他在全球45个国家发表过演讲。近几年，则专注于辅导亚洲国家推动城市的创意发展。 其著作有：《创意城市》（The Creative City：A Toolkit for Urban Innovators，2000）、《城市建设的艺术》（The Art of City Making，2006）、《掌握先机：复杂年代的都市生活》（Riding the Rapids：Urban Life in an Age of Complexity，2004），以及与菲尔·伍德合著的《跨文化城市：多元文化的优势》（The Inte...(展开全部)

查尔斯·兰德利（Charles Landry）出生于1948年，先后在英国、德国、意大利接受教育。他在1978年创立的“传通媒体”（Comedia），被誉为欧洲最具权威的文化创意规划咨询机构。多年来，兰德利与他的团队跑遍全世界，推展了无数的项目；他在全球45个国家发表过演讲。近几年，则专注于辅导亚洲国家推动城市的创意发展。 其著作有：《创意城市》（The Creative City：A Toolkit for Urban Innovators，2000）、《城市建设的艺术》（The Art of City Making，2006）、《掌握先机：复杂年代的都市生活》（Riding the Rapids：Urban Life in an Age of Complexity，2004），以及与菲尔·伍德合著的《跨文化城市：多元文化的优势》（The Inte...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

In this thought-provoking book, Martijn de Waal, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, discusses the ways in which digital and mobile media are changing urban life and our everyday experience of our physical surroundings. Few would deny the convenient and engaging nature of new media. But, probing deeper, de Waal delves into how the rise of these “urban media” als...(展开全部)

Tremendous social and economic changes have taken place in Chinese Cities since China embarked on a reform programme. Such changes are best manifested in the built environment of the cities where geographic space, social life, demographic composition and economic production have witnessed restructuring from socialist patterns to increasingly market based forms. Restructuring th...(展开全部)

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)

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)

As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture.