Cities - Couverture rigide

Reader, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0434009628 ISBN 13 : 9780434009626

Editeur : William Heinemann Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

This work is an exploration of the nature of the city from its beginnings to contemporary Cairo, the largest city the world has known. "Cities" explores the city's "raison d'etre", functions and forms, its achievements and problems, from fortifications to sewers, factories to markets, theatres and bars.From the ruins of the earliest cities to the 21s t century, the book explores how cities develop and thrive, how they decline and die, how they remake themselves. It investigates their parasitic relationship with the country around them, the webs of trade and immigration they inhabit, how they feed and water themselves and dispose of their wastes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Reader is an author and photojournalist with more than forty years' professional experience. He holds an Honorary Research Fellowship in the Department of Anthropology at UCL and is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and the Royal Geographic Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: William Heinemann Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0434009628
• ISBN 13: 9780434009626
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible