Metropolis : a history of the city, humankind's greatest invention
by Wilson, Ben, 1980- (Author)
Summary
"From a brilliant young historian, a colourful journey through 7,000 years and twenty-six world cities that shows how urban living has been the spur and incubator to humankind's greatest innovations. In the two hundred millennia of our existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city.... Full description