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A History of Future Cities
A History of Future Cities
Author: Daniel Brook
A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai.On May 27, 1703, Tsar Peter the Great founded a new capital on a barren Baltic marsh. Modeled on Amsterdam, he believed it would erase Russian backwardness and usher in a modernized, Westernized future. In the ninete...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393078121
ISBN-10: 0393078124
Publication Date: 2/25/2013
Pages: 352
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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