The City: A Global History (Modern Library Chronicles)
by Joel Kotkin
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Author: Joel KotkinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-10
ISBN: 0375756515
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Modern Library
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Book Review: Adequate Overview of Cities
Summary: 3 Stars
The author's scope is ambitious: 5,000 years of city life.
He provides a great summary of the first 3,000 years that readers may not know.
The last 2,000 years offers few details that social science graduates will not already know.
The author's proposition that successful cities deliver the goods for finance, politics and culture may be correct, but the text does not support this thesis directly.
The last quarter of the book attempts to analyze the last 50 years, but does not do a very good job of connecting events to the overarching thesis.
The tone of the book (especially in the last half) is pretty leftward leaning without awareness or justification.
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