Taylor, Peter J. (Peter James), 1944-
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, c2013.
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- Setting down and setting up. A cities’ perspective Conceptual toolkits — Narrative I: beginning conjectures. City and state beginnings : western Asia’s great creative interlude Geographies of beginning creative interludes — Narrative II: world-systems. Normal history Making the modern world-system : western Europe’s great creative interlude — Narrative III: prospective conjectures–where are we and where are we going? Working in an urban world Towards green networks of cities for the twenty-first century.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 380-405) and index.
- Accepting that cities are extraordinary, this book provides an original city-centered narrative of human creativity, past, present and future. In this innovative, ambitious and wide-ranging book, Peter Taylor demonstrates that cities are the epicenters of human advancement. In exploring cities as sites through which economies flourish, by harnessing the creative potential of myriad communication networks, the author considers cities from varying temporal and spatial perspectives. Four stories of cities are told: the origins of city networks the domination of cities by world-empires the genesis of a singular modern creative interval in which innovation culminates in today s globalised cities and finally, the need for cities to act as centres for human creativity to produce a more resilient global society in the current crisis century. Providing a long-term view through which to consider the role of cities in attending to incipient crises of the twenty-first century, this closely argued thesis will prove essential for students and scholars of urban studies, geography and sociology, and all those with a professional interest in, or personal fascination for, cities.
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