Unknown Fields is a nomadic design studio that ventures out on expeditions into the shadows cast by the contemporary city, to uncover the industrial ecologies and precarious wilderness its technology and culture set in motion. Tales from the Dark Side of the City is a book series that forms an atlas to the territories and stories of a city that stretches across the entire plane...(展开全部)

“犬马难描，鬼魅易画。”在作者看来，存在着两个日本：一个日本经济发达、民生富裕，为人们所熟知；另一个日本却有着僵化腐败的官僚体制，岌岌可危的命令型金融系统，以及被泛滥的基本建设破坏殆尽的自然环境。更可怕的是，后者才是真实的日本。作者旅居日本多年，对日本爱之也深，责之也切。如此锋芒锐利的书，自2001年以来已在日本重版八次并受到欢迎，这本身就从一个侧面说明了日本所面临的困境之深，对改革要求之迫切。 几乎在所有方面，中国都存在与日本类似的问题。惟一值得庆幸的，如本书中文版序言所说，是中国可能具有更强的变革能力。惟有推进改革，中国才能避免重蹈日本的覆辙。

TALES FROM THE INNER CITY is a collection of incredibly original stories, rich with feeling, strangely moving, almost numinous. And when the reader comes to the artwork, it's like walking into an amazing room, and then throwing open a curtain to see a brilliant scene that makes you understand and appreciate everything you've encountered in a deeper way.

TALES FROM THE INNER CITY is a collection of incredibly original stories, rich with feeling, strangely moving, almost numinous. And when the reader comes to the artwork, it's like walking into an amazing room, and then throwing open a curtain to see a brilliant scene that makes you understand and appreciate everything you've encountered in a deeper way.

陈志勇：艺术家，作家和电影制片人。在澳大利亚珀斯长大，毕业于西澳大利亚大学 ，目前生活在墨尔本。他以图画书和插图书闻享誉国际，其作品通过梦幻般的超现实主义图像来探讨社会和历史主题，在世界范围内得到广泛翻译，并受到各个年龄段读者的喜爱。 陈志勇凭借《失物招领》获得过美国奥斯卡金像奖最佳动画短片奖，他还获得过瑞典的阿斯特丽德·林格伦纪念奖，最新代表作《内城故事》获得英国的凯特·格林纳威大奖。其他代表作：《观镜像》《兔子》《绯红树》《抵岸》《外郊区的故事》《夏天守则》《蝉》等。

彼得·汤森（Peter Townsend）, 英国萨塞克斯大学工程实验物理学荣誉退休教授，马德里自治大学荣誉博士，曾因乳腺癌检测技术方面的成果入围欧盟笛卡儿研究奖。汤森的研究兴趣涵盖了发光学、光电子学、辐射剂量学、纳米科学等15个领域，曾在8个国家的学术界、工业界和国家实验室工作，发表过530余篇论文。

唐纳德·斯伯特（Donald Spoto），美国著名传记作家，曾撰写劳伦斯·奥利弗、玛丽莲·梦露、格蕾丝·凯利、杰奎琳·肯尼迪等诸多名流的传记，也曾执笔英国王室家族史。

彼得·汤森（Peter Townsend）, 英国萨塞克斯大学工程实验物理学荣誉退休教授，马德里自治大学荣誉博士，曾因乳腺癌检测技术方面的成果入围欧盟笛卡儿研究奖。汤森的研究兴趣涵盖了发光学、光电子学、辐射剂量学、纳米科学等15个领域，曾在8个国家的学术界、工业界和国家实验室工作，发表过530余篇论文。

In this book, one of the world's leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies the Enlightenment's noble hopes for progress and rationality, but i...(展开全部)

In this book, one of the world's leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies the Enlightenment's noble hopes for progress and rationality, but i...(展开全部)