The City: A Global History (Modern Library Chronicles) - Hardcover

Kotkin, Joel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679603360 ISBN 13: 9780679603368

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2005

Synopsis

A dramatic history of cities and of urban life ranges from ancient Mesopotamia to the present day, tracing the evolution of the city from its religious roots in antiquity, to the rise of the classical city and later commercial city-empires, to the industrial urban environment, to the post-industrial, suburban environment of the present day. 18,000 first printing.

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Review:

Advance Praise for The City

"A compelling and original synthesis that belongs on the urbanist's bookshelf with Lewis Mumford, Peter Hall, and Fernand Braudel."
-Witold Rybczynski, Martin & Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism, School of Design, professor of Real Estate, Wharton School

"No one knows more about cities than Joel Kotkin, and has more to teach us about them. In The City, Kotkin takes us on a brisk and invigorating tour of cities from the Babylon of ancient times to the burgeoning exurbs of today. It is impossible not to learn a lot from this book."
-Michael Barone, senior writer, U.S. News & World Report, and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics

"If you want to understand why the future of American and European cities is mixed at best, if you want to understand why George Bush won the 2004 election, you need to read Joel Kotkin's account of how and why cities have developed and declined."
-Fred Siegel, author of Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute

"Unique and powerful insights into urban life . . . This book is a great read."
-Bob Lanier, Mayor of Houston, 1992-1998

From the Hardcover edition.

About the Author:

Joel Kotkin is an Irvine senior fellow with the New America Foundation, which is based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of five books, including Tribes and The New Geography, both published by Random House. Kotkin is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. magazine, The American Enterprise, and the Los Aneles Times “Opinion” section. He also serves as a senior fellow of the Newman Institute at Baruch College of the City University of New York and lectures at the Southern California Institute of Architecture. He lives in Valley Village, Los Angeles, with his wife, Mandy, and two daughters, Ariel and Hannah.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0679603360
• ISBN 13: 9780679603368
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 192