![]() ![]() ![]() But, it is most pointedly NOT a history of "the city" (as some amazon reviewers were quick to point out and completely miss the point of the book). Reader's text is interesting and, while its heavy on the data and statistics, it's extremely readable. Things learned: the economic centrality of small-scale urban gardening in Cuba due to trade embargos, Nairobi is sinking because it was built on a river bed, Stockholm's utopically planned suburbs have actually offered more collectivity than its inhabitants have desired. The fact that you don't, by any means, need to read this one cover to cover from front to back to get into it was a pleasant surprise. John Reader's Cities is more of a collection of essays about different aspects of urbanism than it is a coherent statement about the city in history. ![]()
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