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Rent A History of Future Cities
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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Apr 2014
Genre: Social Science - Sociology - Urban
Retail Price: $28.95
Pages: 480
Synopsis
"[An] inspired tour of the post modern city…Invigorating." ―Mark Kingwell, Harper’s
Hailed as an “original and fascinating book” (Times Literary Supplement), A History of Future Cities is Daniel Brook’s captivating investigation of four “instant cities”―St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai―that sought to catapult themselves into the future by emulating the West.
12 illustrations; 4 maps