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A History Of Future Cities (2013)

by Daniel Brook(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0393348865 (ISBN13: 9780393348866)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

review 1: I really liked this, although it was a tad dry, and I'm not going to recommend it to people who aren't history or city geeks. It covers four cities that were all created fresh as places to experiment with new ideas (St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai), and traces how they impacted the societies that created them, and contrast them with each other.Memes can take on unpredictable lives of their own, and cities are the incubators of those memes.
review 2: Intriguing look at four cities - St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai -as attempts by their host countries (or colonial powers) to construct futuristic metropolises to drag their populaces into the modern world and bolster the image of their countries. The most interesting passages are the insight... mores into why these cities created (or are creating) conflicts between the old and the new and how difficult the future is to control or mold. less

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