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The Cities Book

Author : Lonely Planet
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1787011666
Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Cities Book written by Lonely Planet and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planet's bestselling The Cities Book is back. Fully revised and updated, it's a celebration of 200 of the world's most exciting urban destinations, beautifully photographed and packed with trip advice and recommendations from our experts - making it the perfect companion for any traveller deciding where to visit next. - Highlights and itineraries help travellers plan their perfect trip - Urban tales reveal unexpected bites of history and local culture - Discover each city's strengths, best experiences and most famous exports - Includes the top ten cities for beaches, nightlife, food and more - Lonely Planet co-founder Tony Wheeler shares his all-time favourite cities - Fully revised and updated with the best cities to visit right now About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, on mobile, video and in 14 languages, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more. TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia) Important Notice: The digital edition of this book may not contain all of the images found in the physical edition.

The Cities Book

Author : Lonely Planet Publications (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741798876
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Cities Book written by Lonely Planet Publications (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities represent civilisation and human achievement: they are bubbling microcosms of virtues and vices, vanguards of technology and creative pursuits, incubators of traditions and melting-pots of diversity. More than half the world's population now lives in cities, and for travellers they hold an-endless fascination. Here we present the 200 most vibrant, diverse, hypnotic and chaotic cities in the world, ranked in order as voted for by people who know - Lonely Planet's staff, authors, and readers. The list is as diverse as the people that created it. Of course, there are the usual suspects: Paris, London, New York - but also the unfamiliar, the exotic, and the tiny: Abuja (Nigeria), Nuuk (Greenland), Saint-Denis (Réunion) and Ulaanbataar (Mongolia). Every city has its own personality, in the form of its streets and buildings and in its human architecture. Taking our cue from the buzz on the street, we have captured the flavour of each city through the eyes of the typical citizen: hot conversation topics, urban myths, the best places to eat and drink and to seek out after dark. It's a tempting cocktail for the urban adventurer.

The Cities Book

Author : Lonely Planet Kids
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1786576783
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book The Cities Book written by Lonely Planet Kids and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a trip through 86 of the world's greatest cities. A mix of photography, beautiful illustrations and hand drawn maps take readers on an incredible world tour. Each page is packed with facts on city living - from food and festivals to architecture and history. This stunning compendium of cities is the perfect gift for curious kids everywhere.

Two Cities

Author : Cynthia Zarin
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
ISBN 13 : 1644230313
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Two Cities written by Cynthia Zarin and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed poet and New Yorker writer Cynthia Zarin comes a deeply personal meditation on two cities, Venice and Rome—each a work of art, both a monument to the past—and on how love and loss shape places and spaces. Here we encounter a writer deeply engaged with narrative in situ—a traveler moving through beloved streets, sometimes accompanied, sometimes solo. With her, we see, anew, the Venice Biennale, the Lagoon, and San Michele, the island of the dead; the Piazza di Spagna, the Tiber, the view from the Gianicolo; the pigeons at San Marco and the parrots in the Doria Pamphili. As a poet first and foremost, Zarin’s attention to the smallest details, the loveliest gesture, brings Venice and Rome vividly to life for the reader. The sixteenth book in the expanding, renowned ekphrasis series, Two Cities creates space for these two historic cities to become characters themselves, their relationship to the writer as real as any love affair.

The Ultimate Book of Cities

Author : Anne-Sophie Baumann
Publisher : Twirl
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Ultimate Book of Cities written by Anne-Sophie Baumann and published by Twirl. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does the Express bus take you? How many swans are in the lake at the park? What replaces the shoe repair store? The Ultimate Book of Cities reveals the answers to these questions and much, much more in an oversized fact- and action-packed look at life in the big city! Featuring 59 flaps, pop-ups, pull tabs and movable parts, this all-you-need-to-know guide provides detailed information about what makes a city tick: from the different ways of getting around and what goes on in all the big buildings, to what traffic signs mean and who are all the people who keep the city in tip-top shape! It is a must-have volume to add to a young reader's library of The Ultimate Book series.

Cities in Layers

Author : Philip Steele
Publisher : Big Picture Press
ISBN 13 : 1536203106
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Cities in Layers written by Philip Steele and published by Big Picture Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world's most famous cities through the ages! Walk around any famous city and layers of history start to emerge. In London, Roman walls are dwarfed by office blocks. In Rome, ancient treasures like the Colosseum stand shoulder to shoulder with buildings from the Renaissance. In New York, skyscrapers from the 1920s and 1930s predate enormous glass towers. In Cities in Layers: Six Famous Cities Through Time, six major world cities are shown at different stages throughout history. A clever die-cut element allows readers to really peel back layers of time.

The Great Cities in History

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500773599
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Great Cities in History written by John Julius Norwich and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of world civilization told through the stories of the world's greatest cities from ancient times to the present. Today, for the first time in history, the majority of people in the world live in cities. The implications and challenges associated with this fact are enormous. But how did we get here? From the origins of urbanization in Mesopotamia to the global metropolises of today, great cities have marked the development of human civilization. The Great Cities in History tells their stories, starting with the earliest, from Uruk and Memphis to Jerusalem and Alexandria. Next come the fabulous cities of the first millennium: Damascus and Baghdad, Teotihuacan and Tikal, and Chang’an, capital of Tang Dynasty China. The medieval world saw the rise of powerful cities such as Palermo and Paris in Europe, Benin in Africa, and Angkor in southeast Asia. The last two sections bring us from the early modern world, with Isfahan, Agra, and Amsterdam, to the contemporary city: London and New York, Tokyo and Barcelona, Los Angeles and Sao Paulo. The distinguished contributors, including Jan Morris, Michael D. Coe, Simon Schama, Orlando Figes, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, Misha Glenny, Susan Toby Evans, and A. N. Wilson, evoke the character of each place—people, art and architecture, government—and explain the reasons for its success.

Cities of the World

Author : Becky Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781801046329
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Cities of the World written by Becky Davies and published by . This book was released on 2024-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to travel the world? Peep through the pages to visit eight iconic cities from around the globe. Little readers will love touring London, Moscow, Tokyo and MORE, with fun facts and lots to spot along the way.

The Culture of Cities

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504031342
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Cities written by Lewis Mumford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker. Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to “rebuild the urban world on a sounder human foundation.” First published in 1938, this radical investigation into the human environment is based on firsthand surveys of North American and European locales, as well as extensive historical and technological research. Mumford takes readers from the compact, worker-friendly streets of medieval hamlets to the symmetrical neoclassical avenues of Renaissance cities. He studies the squalor of nineteenth-century factory towns and speculates on the fate of the booming twentieth-century Megalopolis—whose impossible scale, Mumford believes, can only lead to its collapse into a “Nekropolis,” a monstrosity of living death. A civic visionary, Mumford is credited with some of the earliest proposals for ecological urban planning and the appropriate use of technology to create balanced living environments. In the final chapters of The Culture of Cities, he outlines possible paths toward utopian future cities that could be free of the stressors of the Megalopolis, in sync with the rhythms of daily life, powered by clean energy, integrated with agricultural regions, and full of honest and comfortable housing for the working class. The principles set forth by these visions, once applied to Nazi-occupied Europe’s razed cities, are still relevant today as technological advances and overpopulation change the nature of urban life.

The Economy of Cities

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 039470584X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)

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Download or read book The Economy of Cities written by Jane Jacobs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1970-02-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports. Using case studies of developing cities in the ancient, pre-agricultural world, and contemporary cities on the decline, like the financially irresponsible New York City of the mid-sixties, Jacobs identifies the main drivers of urban prosperity and growth, often via counterintuitive and revelatory lessons.

The Heart of Our Cities

Author : Victor Gruen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart of Our Cities written by Victor Gruen and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cities of Refuge: Or, the Name of Jesus: A Sunday Book for the Young

Author : John Ross Macduff
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465509879
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book The Cities of Refuge: Or, the Name of Jesus: A Sunday Book for the Young written by John Ross Macduff and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1861-01-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 067974195X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Death and Life of Great American Cities written by Jane Jacobs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992-12-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and keenly detailed, a monumental work that provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities. "The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense." —The New York Times A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity.

The Cities of Refuge: Or, the Name of Jesus. A Sunday Book for the Young. By the Author of “Morning and Night Watches” [i.e. J.R. Macduff], Etc

Author : John Ross Macduff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Cities of Refuge: Or, the Name of Jesus. A Sunday Book for the Young. By the Author of “Morning and Night Watches” [i.e. J.R. Macduff], Etc written by John Ross Macduff and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Light on the Hill (Cities of Refuge Book #1)

Author : Connilyn Cossette
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493413619
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book A Light on the Hill (Cities of Refuge Book #1) written by Connilyn Cossette and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven years ago, Moriyah was taken captive in Jericho and branded with the mark of the Canaanite gods. Now the Israelites are experiencing peace in their new land, but Moriyah has yet to find her own peace. Because of the shameful mark on her face, she hides behind her veil at all times and the disdain of the townspeople keeps her from socializing. And marriage prospects were out of the question . . . until now. Her father has found someone to marry her, and she hopes to use her love of cooking to impress the man and his motherless sons. But when things go horribly wrong, Moriyah is forced to flee. Seeking safety at one of the newly-established Levitical cities of refuge, she is wildly unprepared for the dangers she will face, and the enemies--and unexpected allies--she will encounter on her way.

Cities

Author : John Reader
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 009928426X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Cities written by John Reader and published by Random House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an exploration of the nature of the city from its beginnings to contemporary Cairo, the largest city the world has known. It explores the city's 'raison d'etre', functions and forms, its achievements and problems, from fortifications to sewers, factories to markets, theatres and bars.

Advanced Introduction to Cities

Author : Peter J. Taylor
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839100133
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Advanced Introduction to Cities written by Peter J. Taylor and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful Advanced Introduction explores the key attributes of cities, identifying their five basic characteristics; innate complexity, the agglomeration of activities, inter-city connectivities, the projection of power, and relations to states. Peter J. Taylor gives a broad and engaging overview of how these characteristics work and relate to each other, supplemented by ten short city insights which offer readers specific examples of cities and themes.