num_pages: 256
description: More than half the world's population lives in cities and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon but the way cities are developing the experience of city life and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. The Atlas of Cities presents a unique taxonomy of cities that looks at different aspects of their physical economic social and political structures; their interactions with each other and with their hinterlands; the challenges and opportunities they present; and where cities might be going in the future.Each chapter explores a particular type of city--from the foundational cities of Greece and Rome and the networked cities of the Hanseatic League through the nineteenth-century modernization of Paris and the industrialization of Manchester to the green and smart cities of today. Expert contributors explore how the development of these cities reflects one or more of the common themes of urban development: the mobilizing function (transport communication and infrastructure); the generative function (innovation and technology); the decision-making capacity (governance economics and institutions); and the transformative capacity (society lifestyle and culture).Using stunning info-graphics maps charts tables and photographs the Atlas of Cities is a comprehensive overview of the patterns of production consumption generation and decay of the twenty-first century's defining form.Presents a one-of-a-kind taxonomy of cities that looks at their origins development and future prospectsFeatures core case studies of particular types of cities from the foundational cities of Greece and Rome to the smart cities of todayExplores common themes of urban development from transport and communication to lifestyle and cultureIncludes stunning info-graphics maps charts tables and photosAdditional material for this book:Cities Featured:Abuja Alexandria Amsterdam Athens Augsburg Babylon Beijing Berlin Brasilia Bruges Budapest Cairo Canberra Chandigarh Chicago Constantinople Curitiba Detroit Dubai Dublin Dusseldorf Florence Frankfurt Freiburg Geneva Ghent Glasgow Gussing Hong Kong Innsbruck Istanbul Jakarta Karachi Knossos Las Vegas London Los Angeles Lubeck Manchester Marseille Masdar City Mexico City Miami Milan Mumba Mumbai Nairobi New York Paris Pella Portland Rome San Francisco Santorini Sao Paulo Seoul Shanghai Sheffield Singapore Sparta St. Petersburg Stockholm Sydney Syracuse Tokyo Vancouver Venice Vienna Washington D.C. Wildpoldsried
language: English
title: Atlas of Cities
publisher: Princeton University Press