The City in Time and Space

By Claire Melhuish 1999-09-01T00:00:00

This book, rightly described as an 'ambitious study', is an extraordinary, somewhat breathless race through the history of cities throughout the world from ancient Sumeria to present-day metropolises. It is full of fascinating and sobering, if generally undeveloped insights: for example, the correlation between cruel social injustice (including regular expulsions ...

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