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A magisterial exploration of the nature of the city from its beginnings to contemporary Cairo, the largest city the world has known.
In his new book, an exploration of the city's functions and forms, John Reader grounds his work in broad-based research into the city's achievements and problems and makes extraordinary and thought-provoking connections as to the nature of cities, old and new.
From the ruins of the earliest cities to the present, Reader explores how they develop and thrive, how they can remake themselves, and how they can decline and die. He investigates their parasitic relationship with the countryside around them, the webs of trade and immigration they inhabit, how they feed and water themselves and dispose of their wastes. He focuses as much on Baron Haussman's creation of the Paris sewers as of his plans for the grand boulevards, on prostitution as on government, on human lives as on architecture, on markets as on cathedrals.
In this sweeping exploration of what the city is and has been, The Anatomy of the City is fit to stand alongside Lewis Mumford's 1962 classic The City in History.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title Cities
- Author John Reader
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grove Press
- Date 2006-10-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780802142733 / 0802142737
- Weight 1.28 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.06 x 1.06 in (22.86 x 15.39 x 2.69 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
- Library of Congress subjects City and town life, Cities and towns
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 79002350
- Dewey Decimal Code 307.76
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- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 162
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