具體描述
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 spirit of our collective ingenuity. He gives us the ecological and functional context of how cities evolved throughout human history—the connection between pottery making and childbirth in ancient Anatolia, plumbing and politics in ancient Rome, and revolution and street planning in nineteenth-century Paris. This illuminating study helps us to understand how urban centers thrive, decline, and rise again—and prepares us for the role cities will play in the future.
作者簡介
約翰·裏德（John Reader）是一位作傢和攝影記者，擁有倫敦大學學院（UCL）人類學係的榮譽研究學位，是皇傢人類學研究院和皇傢地理科學院的成員。作品包括《非洲：一個大陸的傳記》（Africa: A Biography of the Continent）、《大地上的人及消失的綫索：尋找最早的人類》（Man on Earth and Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man）。
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