Metropolis: De grootste uitvinding van de mens
Ben Wilson
Spectrum, 2020
€49,95
Ben Wilson, in Metropolis: The Greatest Invention of Man, tells the glorious story of the flourishing of urban humanity, beginning in Uruk, the first city in 5000 BC. He shows that cities were never a necessity, but once they were there, proximity to other people created a tremendous force that propelled inventions, art and trade to great heights – a pressure cooker for progress and civilization. He takes his reader through the famous cities of the past 7,000 years, from the beginnings of citizenship in ancient Athens, the global trade in ninth-century Baghdad, the role of London coffee houses in the birth of financial markets, the modern home comforts in the center of Amsterdam to a stroll in the Paris of the Belle Époque. He also looks at the impact that skyscrapers had and do have in New York, the vast landscape in Los Angeles and the recent ecological innovations in Shanghai. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789000358816
