In"Cities," the acclaimed historian John Reader takes us on a
journey of the city--from its earliest example in the Ancient Near
East to today's teeming centers of compressed existence, such as
Mumbai and Tokyo. Cities are home to half the planet's population
and consume nearly three-quarters of its natural resources. For
Reader, they are our most natural artifacts, the civic spirit of
our collective ingenuity. He gives us the ecological and functional
context of how cities evolved throughout human history--the
connection between pottery making and childbirth in ancient
Anatolia, plumbing and politics in ancient Rome, and revolution and
street planning in nineteenth-century Paris. This illuminating
study helps us to understand how urban centers thrive, decline, and
rise again--and prepares us for the role cities will play in the
future.
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