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`Review from previous edition A wealth of incidental observations and reflections by a mature scholar' The Washington Post Book World `A great historian ... one of the profession's treasures and a writer of sobriety and dash' Architecture `[Rykwert] writes elegantly and well, and he knows his subject ... the narrative truly swings along, from city to city, continent to continent, with great verve and pace' The Wall Street Journal `Far-ranging, idiosyncratic, discursive' The New York Review of Books `Rykwert is a gloriously erudite, ingeniously speculative historian and critic of architecture' Susan Sontag `This is a necessary book. At a time when the future of cities is being discussed worldwide, Joseph Rykwert offers us an overview of the subject from its tentative beginnings in the Middle East some 10,000 years ago' Sunday Times `rich in detail, entertaining to read and provocative in its conclusions' Christopher Hirst, Independent `coming as it does with a track-record of scholarly distinction, it reads as a word from the wise, as a reminder of some fundamental concerns, of which we as a society should never lose sight' Professor Andrew Ballantyne, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne `an informed meditation on the future' The Art Newspaper

rich in detail, entertaining to read and provocative in its conclusions Christopher Hirst, Independent a superb meditation...and a fascinating narrative Steven Poole, The Guardian

rich in detail, entertaining to read and provocative in its conclusions Christopher Hirst, Independent a superb meditation...and a fascinating narrative Steven Poole, The Guardian

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Joseph Rykwert is Paul Philippe Cret Professor of Architecture Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of ten previous books, including The Idea of a Town, and is an eminent and widely-respected author in both Britain and America.

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