- Published: 1 April 2008
- ISBN: 9780434018369
- Imprint: William Heinemann
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $40.00
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- Published: 1 April 2008
- ISBN: 9780434018369
- Imprint: William Heinemann
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $40.00
Praise for Cities: A fascinating account of how cities grow and sometimes crumble... Reader's magpie eye...picks out gems... Entertaining... Cities is, finally, a celebration of its subject's refusal to be explained or controlled.
Guardian
Cities is vastly entertaining, and Reader has a fine eye for the telling anecdote and statistic... Reading it is a bit like wandering with an erudite companion through a great city in which the past rubs shoulders with the present and surprises lurk around every corner.
Time
It is probably the most enjoyable book ever written about the matter of a city... fascinating
Jan Morris, The Times