Reading for Battle
Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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City is the ultimate handbook for the archetypal city and contains main sections on ‘History', ‘Customs and Language', ‘Districts', ‘Transport', ‘Money', ‘Work', ‘Tourist Sites', ‘Shops and markets', ‘Nightlife', etc., and mini-essays on anything and everything from Babel, Tenochtitlán and Ellis Island to Beijing, Mumbai and New York, and from boulevards, suburbs, shanty towns and favelas, to skylines, urban legends and the sacred.
PD Smith, Bloomsbury, 10 May 2012
In Triumph of the City, Glaeser takes us around the world and into the mind of the modern city – from Mumbai to Paris to Rio to Detroit to Shanghai, and to any number of points in between – to reveal how cities think, why they behave in the manners that they do, and what wisdom they share with the people who inhabit them.
Edward Glaeser, Pan, 16 February 2012
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