This text offers a way of understanding the global nature of cities, where their very openness has served to shape their dynamism and character. It explores the mix of proximity and difference that exists in the rich and diverse texture of city life. The contributors assert that an association exists between the changing fortunes of cities and the power and influence of global ...(展开全部)

In an age of expansive global networks, huge migration flows, and rapid transnational connections, cities are increasingly the focus of movement and change. There is a real sense in which cities are the crucible of the new, where cultures, people and environments combine in various settled and often less settled ways. Unsettling Cities offers a way of understanding the global ...(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)

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)

Bezoar is a personal reflection on beauty, the beauty of anomaly. 作者采访： https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwomen/2020/08/24/interview-with-guadalupe-nettel/ -I’ve always felt drawn to uncommon people. For me, monsters are the absolute incarnation of beauty in its most authentic and most unpredictable form: brave and fragile beings who – whether voluntarily or involuntarily –...(展开全部)

Bezoar is a personal reflection on beauty, the beauty of anomaly. 作者采访： https://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/translatingwomen/2020/08/24/interview-with-guadalupe-nettel/ -I’ve always felt drawn to uncommon people. For me, monsters are the absolute incarnation of beauty in its most authentic and most unpredictable form: brave and fragile beings who – whether voluntarily or involuntarily –...(展开全部)

Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. “Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant” (Gore Vidal). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book One of the world's best sto...(展开全部)

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