History of Future Cities

Name: History of Future Cities
Price: 4.65 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780393348866

ISBN-10: 0393348865

ISBN-13: 9780393348866

Edition: 2014

Authors: Daniel Brook

List price: $16.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $25.01

Marketplace

3 new & used from $4.65

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen. Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage?In a captivating blend of history and reportage, Daniel Brook travels to a series of major metropolitan hubs that were once themselves instant cities— St. Petersburg, Shanghai, and Mumbai—to watch their “dress rehearsals for the twenty-first century.” Understanding today’s…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/21/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.31" long x 1.38" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Daniel Brook is the author of The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America and a journalist whose work has appeared in publications including Harper's, the Nation, Foreign Policy, and Slate. A New York native, he lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.