具体描述
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.
作者简介
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）。
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赫拉利在《人类简史》中提出一个观点，认为是小麦驯化了人类。老实说，第一次读到这一观点时，我并不吃惊，因为我印象中，在别的书籍中也看到过类似的观点，似乎是郑也夫先生的书。 《城市的故事》也采用了类似的观点，把城市看作一个有生命的有机体。那么Ta们也会有生老病死的...
评分我觉得这一本书很适合跟卡尔维诺的《看不见的城市》放在一起阅读。我认为这两本书都是在讲述关于城市的故事，只是前者是从生态学的视角出发带历史传记性质，而后者则是将各种抽象的学科（诸如符号学之类）混沌成一锅文学浓汤。然而这两者相互参照，相互衬托，却可以让我们对城...
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...
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