Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today’s cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination. Architects, artists, filmmakers, and fiction writers have long been inspired...(展开全部)

作者：亚当.扎加耶夫斯基 波兰著名诗人、随笔散文家和小说家。一九四五年出生在利沃夫（今属乌克兰），毕业于雅盖隆大学哲学系。波兰“新浪潮”诗歌代表诗人、主要理论阐述者。在一九七〇年代是波兰持不同政见的异议诗人。一九八二年移居巴黎。后往来于巴黎和美国之间，先后执教于休斯敦和芝加哥大学。二〇〇二年返回波兰，定居克拉科夫。主要著作有诗集《公报》《肉铺》《信》《多重性颂》《画布》《炽烈的土地》《震惊》《神秘学入门》《无止境——扎加耶夫斯基诗选》《永恒的敌人》和《无形之手》，随笔散文集《团结，孤独》《两座城市》《另一种美》《捍卫热情》等。扎加耶夫斯基的作品已被翻译为多种语言出版，获得过诺斯达特国际文学奖、特朗斯特罗姆奖、米沃什奖、欧洲诗人奖等多项权威大奖，以及中国的“诗歌与人国际诗歌奖”和“中坤国际诗歌奖”，并多次获诺贝尔文学奖提名。 译者：李以亮 诗人、译者。...(展开全部)

How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to...(展开全部)

作者： 斯科特·麦夸尔（Scott McQuire），澳大利亚墨尔本大学文化与传播学院媒体与传播学教授，公共文化研究中心创办人，2013年当选澳大利亚人文科学院院士。出版7本专著，发表100多篇论文等，主持9个澳大利亚研究委员会科研项目。专著《媒介城市》曾获2009年城市传播基金会简·雅各布斯奖。 译者： 潘霁，复旦大学新闻学院教授，信息传播研究中心研究员，新加坡南洋理工大学新媒体研究小组博士后研究员，美国南卡罗莱纳大学博士。主要研究兴趣包括：数字媒体技术对于城市公共生活的影响，城市传播中的信任与社会资本，以及数字传播研究方法创新等。

作者： 斯科特·麦夸尔（Scott McQuire），澳大利亚墨尔本大学文化与传播学院媒体与传播学教授，公共文化研究中心创办人，2013年当选澳大利亚人文科学院院士。出版7本专著，发表100多篇论文等，主持9个澳大利亚研究委员会科研项目。专著《媒介城市》曾获2009年城市传播基金会简·雅各布斯奖。 译者： 潘霁，复旦大学新闻学院教授，信息传播研究中心研究员，新加坡南洋理工大学新媒体研究小组博士后研究员，美国南卡罗莱纳大学博士。主要研究兴趣包括：数字媒体技术对于城市公共生活的影响，城市传播中的信任与社会资本，以及数字传播研究方法创新等。

Cities around the world are being wrecked by the ever-increasing burden of traffic. A significant part of the problem is the enduring popularity of the private car - still an attractive and convenient option to many, who turn a blind eye to the environmental and public health impact. Public transport has always seemed to take second place to the car, and yet alternative ways ...(展开全部)

Cities around the world are being wrecked by the ever-increasing burden of traffic. A significant part of the problem is the enduring popularity of the private car - still an attractive and convenient option to many, who turn a blind eye to the environmental and public health impact. Public transport has always seemed to take second place to the car, and yet alternative ways ...(展开全部)

Writing About Architecture: Mastering the Language of Buildings and Cities, the latest addition to the Architecture Briefs series, is a handbook on how to write effectively and critically about the contemporary city. The book offers works by some of the best architecture critics of the twentieth century, including Ada Louise Huxtable, Lewis Mumford, Herbert Muschamp, Michael So...(展开全部)

Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. This is a critical summary of the emerging discipline of 'ecocriticism'. It was written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism. It traces the history of the ecocritical movement from its roots in the 1970s through to its diver...(展开全部)