CITY: A USER’S GUIDE TO THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF URBAN LIFE
Book ID/图书代码： 02000008B28956
English Summary/英文概要： Keynote: This remarkable history of urban culture worldwide, from the first city builders 7000 years ago, to today’s sprawling megacities, using the form of a popular guidebook to get to the heart of what makes cities thrive. For the first time in the history of the planet, more than half the population – 3.3 billion people – are now living in cities. Two hundred years ago only 3 per cent of the world’s population were urbanites, a figure that had remained fairly stable (give or take the occasional plague) for about 1000 years. By 2030, 60 per cent of us will be urban dwellers.City is the ultimate handbook for the archetypal city and contains main sections on ‘History’, ‘Customs and Language’,‘Districts’, ‘Transport’, ‘Money’, ‘Work’,‘Tourist Sites’, ‘Shops and markets’, ‘Nightlife’, etc., and mini-essays on anything and everything from Babel, Tenochtitlán and Ellis Island to Beijing, Mumbai and New York, and from boulevards, suburbs, shanty towns and favelas, to skylines, urban legends and the sacred. Drawing on a wide range of examples from cities across the world and throughout history, it explores the reasons why people first built cities and why urban populations are growing larger every year.
City is illustrated throughout with a range of photographs, maps and other illustrations.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人類最偉大的創造與發明 -城市在地球的歷史中有人類以來，第一次突破記錄，生活在城市中的人口超過33億人，相較於兩百年前，全球只有百分之三的人口住在都市，這個數字的大幅成長是相當驚人的。到了2030年，這個比例將達到60％，大規模的城市發展對於我們的生活，究竟帶來什麼樣的影響?
偉大的城市培育人文、科學與藝術創造，妥善的管理城市才是人類未來的希望。本書是一本全球城市解析的終極指南，透過作者的精闢研究，把世界各大城市的起源和未來發展一一詳細分析。
城市像是一個有活力的有機組織，其中包含了歷史人文、風俗、交通、貿易、宗教、商業文化還有各地的夜生活。從東方的北京到西方的紐約，從曼哈頓到香港，從林蔭大道到地區小巷，從豪宅到貧民窟，從歷史故事到恐怖的都市傳說，本書作者把其中複雜、矛盾衝突、利益糾葛，各式各樣的城市面貌集合於書中，透過每個城市的照片、地圖和插圖探討人類建造城市的原因，證明人類文明的核心所在…(Chris)
Awards/获奖情况：版權已售: Sold to Japan for a 5 figure sum"A richly packed, colourful and well-written primer on the role the city plays in our lives The sorcery of cities should not be lost; Smith’s ebullient guidebook helps to remind us why." - Jonathan Glancey, Guardian
"Half a century ago, Lewis Mumford published The City in History, a hugely influential and in some ways controversial book that has been the Bible for students and lovers of city life. But that was half a century ago, and around the world the cityscape has undergone enormous changes. A new look at this great subject has for some time been needed, and in City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age, P.D. Smith provides it. A British scholar connected to University College London, Smith is less philosophical and more empirical than Mumford, but if anything this is welcome, as City is wholly accessible to the serious general reader." - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
"It¹s a wonderful book: BldgBlog meets Italo Calvino. Gorgeous, smart, fun, and full of surprises, like wandering all the world¹s great cities at once Irresistible." - David Dobbs, Wired.com
"Handsome and well-written". - Times Literary Supplement
"A magnificent achievement." - Mark Lamster, Design Observer
"City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age is a well-written ramble, a delightful book for dipping into for new discoveries. It is a love song to cities, large and small. So who is the audience for this wildly entertainment book? Anyone with an inquiring mind. It might be a good summer reading book for children who have an interest in science, history and connections. Good for adults too." - McClatchy Newspapers (US)
"An engaging guide" - Saul Austerlitz, The National (UAE)
³Discursive, imaginative, and comprehensive, [Smith¹s] analysis of everything from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to skateboarding and graffiti should be savored.² - Publishers Weekly
"As exciting, sprawling and multifarious as a shining city on a hill." - Kirkus Reviews
"Like any great city, this is a book to get lost in, to try out new areas, to sample to savor, to enjoy Highly recommended for readers across many subject categories, including urban studies, cultural history, and travel." - Library Journal
About the Author/作者介绍： P. D. Smith is an independent researcher and writer. He has taught at University College London where he is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Science and Technology Studies Department and has contributed to the Guardian and writes for other national publications including The Times, Independent and the Times Literary Supplement and regularly contributes to the acclaimed website 3 Quarks Daily. His books include Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon.
Format:HARDCOVER
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