EXTRAORDINARY CITIES: MILLENNIA OF MORAL SYNDROMES, WORLD-SYSTEMS AND CITY/STATE RELATIONS

Book ID/图书代码： 13B61723

English Summary/英文概要： Accepting that cities are extraordinary, this book provides an original city-centred narrative of human creativity, past, present and future. In this innovative, ambitious and wide-ranging book, Peter Taylor demonstrates that cities are the epicenters of human advancement. In exploring cities as sites through which economies flourish, by harnessing the creative potential of myriad communication networks, the author considers cities from varying temporal and spatial perspectives. Four stories of cities are told: the origins of city networks; the domination of cities by world-empires; the genesis of a singular modern creative interval in which innovation culminates in today’s globalised cities; and finally, the need for cities to act as centres for human creativity to produce a more resilient global society in the current crisis century. Providing a long-term view through which to consider the role of cities in attending to incipient crises of the twenty-first century, this closely argued thesis will prove essential for students and scholars of urban studies, geography and sociology, and all with a professional interest in, or personal fascination for, cities.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在认识到城市的非凡性的基础上,这本书给大家提供了最原汁原味的城市描述，汇聚着过去、现在和未来的人类的创造力。在这本富有新意，内容广泛波澜壮阔的书中，彼得•泰勒论证道城市是人类文明进步的中心。作者从城市作为经济繁荣的中心到城市为无数具有潜力的人创造提供交流联络网络，阐释城市在不同时空都是人类文明进步的中心。本书讲了四个关于城市的故事:城市网络的起源;世界统治者对城市的支配,创世之初一个简单的创造到现在大量的创造造就了全球化的城市群：最后,在当前这个充满危机的时代，城市可以为世界提供一种弹性的社会系统的必要性。本书以长远的观点来思考城市在21世纪初期的危机中扮演的角色,这个严密的论证对相关学生、学者,地理和城市研究的社会学者，包括与之所有相关专业感兴趣的人或者想了解的城市的人是必不可少的。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：彼得•泰勒创造了一个全面的,以实验为基础,长期以来以防御性为主的城市建设主体，大规模社会构造;一种社会科学从政治控制中挣脱的自由之风;事实上,这也是人类所希望的。然而,这项复杂之事最强大之处在于,引人争议的,在这个过程中如何去看待城市。这本书将教会你懂得城市的意义，通过了解城市的动态变化网络以及在一个国家中的关系。——理查德•李,美国宾厄姆顿大学

Peter J. Taylor has produced a sweeping, empirically grounded, defense of cities as fundamental building blocks of long-term, large scale social structures; a way of freeing social science from state-centric bias; and indeed, mankind s hope. However, the single greatest strength of this complex, seductive, argument is the insistence on treating cities relationally, as process. Here the key to understanding the significance of cities is by studying them in terms of the dynamic networks they form and in their relations to states. --Richard E. Lee, Binghamton University, US

About the Author/作者介绍： 彼得•泰勒,英国诺森比亚大学人文地理学教授

Peter J. Taylor, FBA Professor of Human Geography, Northumbria University, UK

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