Half a century ago, Lewis Mumford published ?The City in History,? a hugely influential and in some ways controversial book that has been the Bible for students and lovers of city life. But that was half a century ago, and around the world the cityscape has undergone enormous changes. A new look at this great subject has for some time been needed, and in ?City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age,? P.D. Smith provides it. A British scholar connected to University College London, Smith is less philosophical and more empirical than Mumford, but if anything this is welcome, as ?City? is wholly accessible to the serious general reader.
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