皮埃尔·马南 (Pierre Manent，1949— )，当代法国政治哲学关键人物，毕业于巴黎高等师范学院，曾为雷蒙·阿隆助手，被美国《旗帜周刊》誉为“最深刻的欧洲怀疑主义哲学家”。

Publius Ovidius Naso, whom we know as Ovid, was already established as a writer when The Metamorphoses was published in A.D. 8, when he was 52 years old. It had taken him a decade to compose his great poem, during which time he published little, but the Roman world was still abuzz with excitement over his richly erotic Art of Love. So, unfortunately, was the court of Augustus C...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion--imageability--and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuil...(展开全部)

Shortlisted for the 2018 Ondaatje Prize Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year A masterful and entirely fresh portrait of great hopes and dashed dreams in a mythical city from a major new literary voice. Everything that could possibly be wrong with a city was wrong with Calcutta. When Kushanava Choudhury arrived in New Jersey at the age of twelve, he had al...(展开全部)

库沙那瓦·乔杜里，生于加尔各答，后随父母移民美国。在耶鲁大学完成本科学业后，回到加尔各答并以记者身份供职于当地的《政治家报》，后又返回美国在耶鲁大学攻读政治学博士学位。本书是其第一本公开发表的文学创作。

库沙那瓦·乔杜里，生于加尔各答，后随父母移民美国。在耶鲁大学完成本科学业后，回到加尔各答并以记者身份供职于当地的《政治家报》，后又返回美国在耶鲁大学攻读政治学博士学位。本书是其第一本公开发表的文学创作。

Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as ...(展开全部)

Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, .the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions. Urban cult...(展开全部)