Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest InventionKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10/11/2020 - 464 páginas In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. “A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time—dazzling.” —The Wall Street Journal During the two hundred millennia of humanity’s existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. From their very beginnings, cities created such a flourishing of human endeavor—new professions, new forms of art, worship and trade—that they kick-started civilization. Guiding us through the centuries, Wilson reveals the innovations nurtured by the inimitable energy of human beings together: civics in the agora of Athens, global trade in ninth-century Baghdad, finance in the coffeehouses of London, domestic comforts in the heart of Amsterdam, peacocking in Belle Époque Paris. In the modern age, the skyscrapers of New York City inspired utopian visions of community design, while the trees of twenty-first-century Seattle and Shanghai point to a sustainable future in the age of climate change. Page-turning, irresistible, and rich with engrossing detail, Metropolis is a brilliant demonstration that the story of human civilization is the story of cities. |
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Harappa and Babylon 2000539 | |
Athens and Alexandria 50730 | |
Rome 30 BCAD 537 | |
Baghdad 5371258 | |
Lübeck 12261491 | |
The Gates of Hell? Manchester and Chicago 18301914 | |
Paris 18301914 | |
New York 18991939 | |
Warsaw 193945 | |
Los Angeles 194599 | |
Lagos 19992020 | |
Illustrations Acknowledgements | |
Notes | |
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