约翰·里德(John Reader)是一位作家和摄影记者,拥有伦敦大学学院(UCL)人类学系的荣誉研究学位,是皇家人类学研究院和皇家地理科学院的成员。作品包括《非洲:一个大陆的传记》(Africa: A Biography of the Continent)、《大地上的人及消失的线索:寻找最早的人类》(Man on Earth and Missing Links: The Hunt for Earliest Man)。
In Cities , the acclaimed historian John Reader takes us on a journey of the city—from its earliest example in the Ancient Near East to today’s teeming centers of compressed existence, such as Mumbai and Tokyo. Cities are home to half the planet’s population and consume nearly three-quarters of its natural resources. For Reader, they are our most natural artifacts, the civic spirit of our collective ingenuity. He gives us the ecological and functional context of how cities evolved throughout human history—the connection between pottery making and childbirth in ancient Anatolia, plumbing and politics in ancient Rome, and revolution and street planning in nineteenth-century Paris. This illuminating study helps us to understand how urban centers thrive, decline, and rise again—and prepares us for the role cities will play in the future.
我看的是中文版,这书用了大量的历史证据及学者语句来阐述一个城市的产生,发展,并说明了城市存在的形态及其与其它形式的存在的不同
评分CITIES,一部城市的发展史?虽然这书是为管理城市的精英阶层准备的,和我们很多普通老百姓没什么交集,我们不是决策制定者。但是知道和不知道是不一样的,看了这本书以后也许你可以评判政府关于城市的决策的好坏,有你自己的观点,而不是跟着舆论走,独立之观点是很重要...
评分A very interesting, informative and thought-provoking account on the history of cities. Too many of us born and living in the cities have taken too much granted. In view of all the lingering social problems and aftermath of natural disasters such as what Ja...
评分文/吴情 有学者预测,在二十一世纪中叶,全球约三分之二以上人口将居住在城市并成为城市人口。伴随工业化进程的深入,城市化也在逐步推进。然而,对多数人来说,城市既陌生又熟悉,像空气一般司空见惯,以至于很少有人会对城市的古往今来产生好奇、疑问、探索和阐释。...
评分卡尔维诺写过《看不见的城市》。在那本书里,所有的城市都是虚构的,作家的目的在于提供机会,让我们对城市或泛指意义上的城市进行反思。英国人类学家约翰•里德的《城市的故事》则提供了一部真实的历史,还原逝去的场景,以昨日观照当下。 通史作品一般聚焦...
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