作 者 【美】埃里克·芒福德（Eric Mumford） 建筑和城市历史学家、策展人，现为圣路易斯华盛顿大学建筑学教授。芒福德曾先后就读于哈佛大学、麻省理工学院、普林斯顿大学等世界著名建筑学院，并曾担任哈佛大学和哥伦比亚大学客座教授。出版过《定义城市设计》（Defining Urban Design）《国际现代建筑协会关于都市主义的论述（1928—1960）》（The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960）等多部关于现代建筑和都市主义历史和理论的专著。 译 者 刘筱 理学博士，管理学博士后，伦敦大学巴特利特规划学院访问学者。现为深圳大学管理学院教授，公共管理系主任，中国地理学会城市与区域管理委员会委员，中国科学与科技政策研究会政策模拟专业委员会委员，主要从事城市发展、城市管理与区域创新研究。

作 者 【美】埃里克·芒福德（Eric Mumford） 建筑和城市历史学家、策展人，现为圣路易斯华盛顿大学建筑学教授。芒福德曾先后就读于哈佛大学、麻省理工学院、普林斯顿大学等世界著名建筑学院，并曾担任哈佛大学和哥伦比亚大学客座教授。出版过《定义城市设计》（Defining Urban Design）《国际现代建筑协会关于都市主义的论述（1928—1960）》（The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960）等多部关于现代建筑和都市主义历史和理论的专著。 译 者 刘筱 理学博士，管理学博士后，伦敦大学巴特利特规划学院访问学者。现为深圳大学管理学院教授，公共管理系主任，中国地理学会城市与区域管理委员会委员，中国科学与科技政策研究会政策模拟专业委员会委员，主要从事城市发展、城市管理与区域创新研究。

鲁伯特·克里斯琴（Rupert Christiansen） 曾就读于剑桥大学和哥伦比亚大学，并成为富布赖特学者。他是《每日电讯报》的歌剧评论家和《星期日邮报》的舞蹈评论家，同时也为多家美国、英国期刊杂志撰稿，其中包括：《旁 观者》杂志，《哈勃斯奎因》杂志，《名利场》，《泰晤士报文学增刊》，《文学评论》。他还是《欧普拉》杂志的编委会成员。

Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture. It focuses on visual forms of dystopic re...(展开全部)

This book provides a coherent story behind the sites of Rome, to lead the reader on a journey through the turbulent history of the Roman state from its humble beginnings on the Palatine hill to the maximum extent of its power in the 1st-2nd centuries A D, when almost the whole world known to the Romans was under their control. Firmly rooted in the topographic and architectural ...(展开全部)

"This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New Yorker At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be...(展开全部)

At the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and Robert McCormick produced the most spectacular newspapers Americans had ever read. Alongside current events and classified ads, publishers began running comic strips, sports sections, women’s pages, and Sunday magazines. Newspapers’ lavish illustrations, colorful dialo...(展开全部)

At the turn of the twentieth century, ambitious publishers like Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and Robert McCormick produced the most spectacular newspapers Americans had ever read. Alongside current events and classified ads, publishers began running comic strips, sports sections, women’s pages, and Sunday magazines. Newspapers’ lavish illustrations, colorful dialo...(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)