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Loading... Babylon is Everywhere: The City as Man's Fateby Wolf Schneider
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This history of cities was written in 1960 and so is somewhat dated. It gives a thorough look at man's created artificial environment across history and cultures. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Excerpt from Babylon Is Everywhere the City as Man's FateBut for a long time great cities have been etching their traces even in the sparsely inhabited parts of the earth. Because Copenhagen and Los Angeles wanted the shortest possible route to each other, airfields were blasted out Of Greenland's ice; because our cities need oil for their factories and their cars, pipelines now run across the Sahara Desert.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)301.36Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Ecology and community Urban studiesLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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