Cities: A Magisterial Exploration of the Nature of the City from its Beginnings to Contemporary Tokyo, the Largest City the World has Known by John Reader

Cities: A Magisterial Exploration of the Nature of the City from its Beginnings to Contemporary Tokyo, the Largest City the World has Known

John Reader

358 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Reader reveals how cities came to be, what made them thrive, how they declined, and how they remade themselves. He debunks long-held theories and shows that the first cities actually preceded and inspired the growth of farming, that trees grow bet...

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