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Extraordinary Cities
Peter James Taylor
其他書名
Millenia of Moral Syndromes, World-systems and City/state Relations
出版Edward Elgar, 2013
ISBN17819548019781781954805
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2ubwMgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In this innovative, ambitious and wide-ranging book, Peter Taylor demonstrates that cities are the epicenters of human advancement. In exploring cities as sites through which economies flourish, by harnessing the creative potential of myriad communication networks, the author considers cities from varying temporal and spatial perspectives. Four stories of cities are told: the origins of city networks; the domination of cities by world-empires; the genesis of a singular modern creative interval in which innovation culminates in today's globalised cities; and finally, the need for cities to act as centres for human creativity to produce a more resilient global society in the current crisis century.