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John Reader
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Format: Book
Pages: 358
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Date Published: Sep 2005
Stock Code: 4439
Binding: Hardback
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This book explores the citys raisons detre, functions and forms, its achievements and problems, from fortifications to sewers, factories to markets, theatres and bars. The book is a study of the nature of the city and of city-life, from the ruins of the earliest cities to the present, and it explores how cities develop and thrive, how they can decline and die and how they remake themselves.
John Reader investigates their parasitic relationship with the country around them, the webs of trade and immigration they inhabit, how they feed and water themselves and dispose of their wastes. This comprehensive account of the city, from the ruins of the earliest known city to the present, is a fascinating journey and ideal for urban designers and planners as well as historians.
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