'Capacious, entertaining and rich in wondrous detail.' Literary
Review 'Compendious and fascinating.' Telegraph 'Brilliant...
Enchanting.' Evening Standard A dazzling, globe-spanning history of
humankind's greatest invention: the city. From its earliest
incarnations 7,000 years ago to the megalopolises of today, the
story of the city is the story of civilisation. Although cities
have only ever been inhabited by a tiny minority of humanity, the
heat they generate has sparked most of our political, social,
commercial, scientific and artistic revolutions. It is these
world-changing, epoch-defining moments that are the focus of Ben
Wilson's book, as he takes us on a thrilling global tour of the key
metropolises of history, from Urk, Athens, Alexandria and Rome, to
Baghdad, Lubeck and Venice, to Lisbon, Amsterdam, London, Paris,
New York, LA, Shanghai and Lagos. Managing and re-imagining the
city is already one of the most pressing issues of the twenty-first
century. With over half the world's population now living in
cities, and with the cosmopolitanism of the major world
metropolises under attack from revived nationalism and hostility to
globalisation, it has never been more important to understand
cities and the role they have played in making us who we are. Rich
with individual characters, scenes and snapshots of daily life,
Metropolis combines scholarship and storytelling in a terrifically
engaging, stylishly written history of the world through an urban
lens. 'A supremely wide-ranging study of the world's great cities.'
Dan Jones, Daily Express, Books of the Year
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