Extraordinary Cities: Millennia of Moral Syndromes, World-Systems and City/State Relations

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In this innovative, ambitious and wide-ranging book, Peter Taylor demonstrates that cities are the epicenters of human advancement. In exploring cities as sites through which economies flourish, by harnessing the creative potential of myriad communication networks, the author considers cities from varying temporal and spatial perspectives. Four stories of cities are told: the origins of city networks; the domination of cities by world-empires; the genesis of a singular modern creative interval in which innovation culminates in today's globalised cities; and finally, the need for cities to act as centres for human creativity to produce a more resilient global society in the current crisis century.

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1781954801

ISBN13:9781781954805

Release Date:April 2013

Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing

Length:448 Pages

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