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.
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)。
开门见山,这是一本很好的书,写得很有质感,说得也很有逻辑。没有过多的故弄玄虚的词汇和描述,有的只是很平时的语言,和娓娓道来的历史视觉。像目前市面上众多的讲述生物起源、进化的图书一样,这部书看上去更像是一部科普读物——一本讲述城市起源、进化、发展和未来趋势的...
评分This book gives an extensive and exhaustive analysis on cities: how they developed, what they are fed on, their relationships with nature and rural areas, and the problems they are facing. It's a serious book, yet still quite fun to read. The only pity to m...
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...
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