
Cities
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'Monica Smith is the person best qualified to write a book about the big problems raised by the increasing concentration of the human population into cities. She also has a gift for vivid writing that will make the science of cities come to life for the broad public. I expect that CITIES will be a great read and will sell well.'
Jared Diamond, author of Collapse
Over half of the world's population lives in an urban area and cities around the globe are getting bigger and bigger. Love them or hate them, more and more of us are choosing to live in them.
Cities investigates the following intriguing questions: why did cities start to occur around 6,000 years ago, how have they evolved, why do so many of us choose to live in them, how do they affect us, and what does the future hold at a time when we're increasingly connected by technology?
In Cities, Monica L. Smith points out that, even if you don't live in a city, your life is inevitably affected by one, whether you commute into one for work, sell coffee beans to a company that supplies urban coffee shops, or host city-dwelling tourists seeking adventure and respite from the city in your remote village.
Using fascinating anecdotes and research findings from her work as an archaeologist, Smith also reveals that many of the problems that we associate with modern cities (violence, hyperconsumption, etc.) have, in fact, always existed. And, more positively, how many of the things that draw us to cities in modern times (educational and economic opportunities, social mobility, culture) are the things that have drawn us to them since they first appeared.
She also makes the controversial argument that it's down to cities that the middle class exists and she examines why social movements flourish in cities in a way they rarely do in rural settings.
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Content
- Cover
- Epigraph
- 1. Why Cities?
- 2. City Life, Past and Present
- 3. How to Dig an Ancient City
- 4. Before Cities, There Was . . .
- 5. Urban Building Blocks
- 6. Infrastructure Holds Things Up
- 7. The Harmony of Consumption
- 8. The Mojo of The Middle Class
- 9. Anxiety, Risk, and Middle-Class Life
- 10. A World of Cities
- 11. The Next 6,000 Years
- Acknowledgments
- About Monica L. Smith
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright
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