A History of Future Cities (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for A History of Future Cities A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai.
Full description- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Published: 01 April 2013
- Format: Hardback 352 pages
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- Categories: Social Forecasting, Future Studies | Globalization | Urban Communities | Urban & Municipal Planning | European History | Asian History | Middle Eastern History | Social & Cultural History
- ISBN 13: 9780393078121 ISBN 10: 0393078124
- Sales rank: 69,084
Full description for A History of Future Cities
In 1703, Peter the Great founded his eponymous capital on a Baltic marsh. Modelled on Amsterdam, he believed it would usher in a modernised, Westernised future. In the nineteenth-century Age of Imperialism, the British rebuilt Bombay as a tropical London, while three Western powers made Shanghai look just like home. In our time, the sheikh of Dubai has transformed his desert city into a skyscraper-studded global hub. The cultural and historical threads that connect these cities and their conflicted embrace of modernity are brought into relief in Daniel Brook's captivating mix of history and reportage - a story of architects and authoritarians, artists and revolutionaries who take these facsimiles of the West and turn them into crucibles of non-Western modernism. A History of Future Cities is both a crucial reminder of globalisation's long march and an inspiring look into the possibilities of our Asian Century.
