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Joel Kotkin’s short book is an account of the city through history, from its prehistoric precursors to its future. It examines how the urban form has evolved over the course of its history, and places particular emphasis on the timeless role of the city as the crossroads of peoples and cultures, as a locus of trade, and as an artistic centre.
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Joel Kotkin is a Senior Fellow with the Pacific Research Institute, San Francisco, a Senior Fellow with the Center for Equal Opportunity, Washington D.C., and an international Fellow at Pepperdine University School of Business in Los Angeles. He is the Business Trends Analyst for Fox Television in Los Angeles. In 1994, he won the Golden Mike Award for Best Business Reporting on the changing dynamics of the entertainment industry, and this year, he was nominated for an Emmy. He is a contributing editor to The Los Angeles Times Opinion Section, The New Democrat and a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
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"A rich global history" THE TIMES "Kotkin attempts a far-reaching look at the evolution of the urban landscape and aims to define what makes a city great." GLASGOW HERALD "It well serves to illustrate the background to one of the major problems of our time - and contains important lessons for those who will have to manage our cities in the future." FINANCIAL TIMES
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0297646850
- ISBN 13 9780297646853
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