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"We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "Internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside. In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthon…
The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a global perspective, making use of recent theoretical and empirical developments, with contributions from eminent as well as emergen…
The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the I…
"Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching also to Asia and Africa, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, this book explores the methodological and heuristic implications of studying cities in relation to one another. Movi…
En La ciudad en la historia Lewis Mumford arranca de una interpretación radicalmente innovadora sobre el origen y la naturaleza de la ciudad, y sigue su evolución en Egipto y Mesopotamia pasando por Grecia, Roma y la Edad Media hasta llegar al mundo moderno. En lugar de aceptar …
En La ciudad en la historia Lewis Mumford arranca de una interpretación radicalmente innovadora sobre el origen y la naturaleza de la ciudad, y sigue su evolución en Egipto y Mesopotamia pasando por Grecia, Roma y la Edad Media hasta llegar al mundo moderno. En lugar de aceptar …
Acclaimed author and independent scholar P.D. Smith explores what it was like to live in the first cities, how they have evolved, and why in the future, cities will play an even greater role in human life. "For the first time in the history of our planet, more than half the pop…
