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Leo Hollis

Cities Are Good for You

The Genius of the Metropolis

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The 21st century will be the age of the city. Already over 50% of the world population live in urban centres and over the coming decades this percentage will increase. Blending anecdote, fact and first hand encounters - from exploring the slums of Mumbai, to visiting roof-top farms in Brooklyn and attending secret dinner parties in Paris, to riding the bus in Latin America - Leo Hollis reveals that we have misunderstood how cities work for too long.Upending long-held assumptions and challenging accepted wisdom, he explores: why cities can never be rational, organised places; how we can walk in a crowd without bumping into people, and if we ca… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-4088-4348-2
  • EAN: 9781408843482
  • Produktnummer: 15711289
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 416 S.
  • Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.6 cm 340 g
  • Gewicht: 340
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


Leo Hollis was born in London in 1972. He went to school at Stonyhurst College and read History at UEA. He works in publishing and is the author of two books on the history of London: The Phoenix: The Men Who Made Modern London and The Stones of London: A History Through Twelve Buildings. He writes regularly for the New Statesman, the TLS and the Daily Telegraph. His blog can be found at www.citiesaregoodforyou.com and tweets at @leohollis.

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