维托尔德.雷布琴斯基为“纽约时报”、“时代周刊”、“大西洋”杂志、“纽约人”杂志和“斯莱特”杂志，撰写建筑和城市方面的专题文章。他的获奖著作有《家和远处的一块空地》，《最后的丰收》和他最近的著作《我的两位波兰祖父》。2007年，国家建筑博物馆授予他“文森特.斯库利奖”。他与他的妻子一起住在费城，他是宾夕法尼亚大学设计学院城市社会物质需求研究方面的马丁和玛吉教授。

维托尔德.雷布琴斯基为“纽约时报”、“时代周刊”、“大西洋”杂志、“纽约人”杂志和“斯莱特”杂志，撰写建筑和城市方面的专题文章。他的获奖著作有《家和远处的一块空地》，《最后的丰收》和他最近的著作《我的两位波兰祖父》。2007年，国家建筑博物馆授予他“文森特.斯库利奖”。他与他的妻子一起住在费城，他是宾夕法尼亚大学设计学院城市社会物质需求研究方面的马丁和玛吉教授。

[美]布莱尔·卢布(Blair A. Ruble) 多伦多大学政治学博士，现任伍德罗·威尔逊国际学者中心(Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)研究员。曾担任该中心项目副总裁兼城市政策实验室主任和凯南高级俄罗斯研究学院(Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies)院长。著有《列宁格勒：塑造一座苏维埃城市》和《金钱之歌：后苏维埃时代雅罗斯拉夫尔城市空间的政治变迁》。 译者简介： 孙慧杰，毕业于北京大学语言信息工程系，现为国家发改委城市和小城镇改革发展中心一级翻译、助理研究员，主要从事城市可持续发展领域政策研究、项目合作及翻译工作。2021年入选“激发女性力量，推动能源转型”全球女性赋能培训计划，2022年在德国总理奖学金支持下赴德开展为期一年的...(展开全部)

By exploring and comparing North America's, Russia's, and Japan's 'second cities' - Chicago, Moscow, and Osaka - Second Metropolis discloses the extent to which social fragmentation, frequently viewed as an obstacle to democratic development, actually fostered a 'pragmatic pluralism' that nurtured pluralistic public policies. Such policies are explored through six case studies ...(展开全部)

The pulse of great cities may be most palpable above ground, but it is below the busy streets where we can observe their rich archaeological history and the infrastructure that keeps them running. In Beneath the Metropolis journalist Alex Marshall investigates how geological features, archaeological remnants of past civilizations, and layered networks transporting water, electr...(展开全部)

The pulse of great cities may be most palpable above ground, but it is below the busy streets where we can observe their rich archaeological history and the infrastructure that keeps them running. In Beneath the Metropolis journalist Alex Marshall investigates how geological features, archaeological remnants of past civilizations, and layered networks transporting water, electr...(展开全部)

Both epic and intimate, this is the story of the fight to save the world’s architectural and cultural heritage as it is embodied in the extraordinary buildings and urban spaces of the great cities of Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Never before have the complexities and dramas of urban preservation been as keenly documented as in Preserving the World’s Great Cities. In research...(展开全部)

In Cities , the acclaimed historian John Reader takes us on a journey of the city—from its earliest example in the Ancient Near East to today’s teeming centers of compressed existence, such as Mumbai and Tokyo. Cities are home to half the planet’s population and consume nearly three-quarters of its natural resources. For Reader, they are our most natural artifacts, the civic s...(展开全部)

A magisterial study of the city from its beginnings to the mega-conurbations of today. 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, John Reader explores how cities coalesce, develop and thrive, how they can decline and die, how they remake themse...(展开全部)