City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age

Sobre el libro City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age de P.D. Smith publicado por Bloomsbury al 2012:

City takes inspirations from the form and layout of a classic guidebook, with examples and illustrations drawn from all over the world and throughout tine. Ther are sections on the history and development of cities, customs and districts, money, transport and the urban future, supplemented by fascinating mini-essays on anything and everything, from the Tower of babel, Tenochtitlán and Ellis Island, to Venice, Brasília an Chinatown, and from suburbs, skycrapers and red-light districts, to graffiti, cafés and sacred cities.