Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention
From a brilliant young historian, a colorful journey through 7,000 years and twenty-six world cities that shows how urban living has been the spur and incubator to humankind's greatest innovations.In the two hundred millennia of our existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. Historian Ben Wilson, author of bestselling and award-winning books on British history, now tells the grand, glorious story of how city living has allowed human culture to flourish. Beginning with Uruk, the world's first city, dating to 5000 BC and memorably portrayed in the Epic of Gilgamesh, he shows us that cities were never a necessity but that once they existed their density created such a blossoming of human endeavor--producing new professions, forms of art, worship, and trade--that they kick-started nothing less than civilization. Guiding readers through famous cities over 7,000 years, he reveals the innovations driven by each: civics in the agora of Athens, global trade in ninth-century Baghdad, finance in the coffeehouses of London, domestic comforts in the heart of Amsterdam, peacocking in Belle Epoque Paris. In the modern age, he studies the impact of verticality in New York City, the sprawl of L.A., and the eco-reimagining of twenty-first-century Shanghai. Lively, erudite, page turning, and irresistible, Metropolis is a grand tour of human achievement.
yazar | Ben Wilson |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 16.59 x 3.61 x 24.54 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 10 Kasım 2020 |
18,9 x 0,3 x 24,6 cm 18,9 x 0,5 x 24,6 cm 30 Ekim 2011 WADE H MCCREE 18,9 x 0,4 x 24,6 cm ROBERT H BORK 18,9 x 0,2 x 24,6 cm Mdpi AG ERWIN N GRISWOLD 1 Ocak 2017 18,9 x 0,6 x 24,6 cm 28 Ekim 2011 Additional Contributors 29 Ekim 2011 3 Ocak 2017 28 Şubat 2018 15 x 0,5 x 22 cm Kolektif
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yazar | Ben Wilson |
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isbn 13 | 978-0385543460 |
Yayımcı | DOUBLEDAY & CO |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 16.59 x 3.61 x 24.54 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention | 10 Kasım 2020 |
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