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)。
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.
發表於2025-01-24
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CITIES,一部城市的發展史?雖然這書是為管理城市的精英階層準備的,和我們很多普通老百姓沒什麼交集,我們不是決策製定者。但是知道和不知道是不一樣的,看瞭這本書以後也許你可以評判政府關於城市的決策的好壞,有你自己的觀點,而不是跟著輿論走,獨立之觀點是很重要...
評分我覺得這一本書很適閤跟卡爾維諾的《看不見的城市》放在一起閱讀。我認為這兩本書都是在講述關於城市的故事,隻是前者是從生態學的視角齣發帶曆史傳記性質,而後者則是將各種抽象的學科(諸如符號學之類)混沌成一鍋文學濃湯。然而這兩者相互參照,相互襯托,卻可以讓我們對城...
評分A very interesting, informative and thought-provoking account on the history of cities. Too many of us born and living in the cities have taken too much granted. In view of all the lingering social problems and aftermath of natural disasters such as what Ja...
評分文/吳情 有學者預測,在二十一世紀中葉,全球約三分之二以上人口將居住在城市並成為城市人口。伴隨工業化進程的深入,城市化也在逐步推進。然而,對多數人來說,城市既陌生又熟悉,像空氣一般司空見慣,以至於很少有人會對城市的古往今來産生好奇、疑問、探索和闡釋。...
評分“返璞歸真,迴歸農村生活”不知道從什麼時候開始變成瞭現代人的一種生活風尚,生活在城市的人們隔三差五的就必須迴到鄉村親近田野,感受大自然的擁抱,“古藤老樹昏鴉,小橋流水人傢”隱藏著多少都市人心中的痛。可是無論鄉村生活提供多休閑舒適的生活,絕大多數人們還是要迴...
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