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092    307.76|bWIL 
100 1  Wilson, Ben,|d1980-|eauthor. 
245 10 Metropolis :|ba history of the city, humankind's greatest 
       invention /|cBen Wilson. 
250    First United States edition. 
264  1 New York :|bDoubleday,|c[2020] 
300    x, 442 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-416) and 
       index. 
520    "From a brilliant young historian, a colourful journey 
       through 7,000 years and twenty-six world cities that shows
       how urban living has been the spur and incubator to 
       humankind's greatest innovations. In the two hundred 
       millennia of our existence, nothing has shaped us more 
       profoundly than the city. Ben Wilson, author of 
       bestselling and award-winning books on British history, 
       now tells the grand, glorious story of how city living has
       allowed human culture to flourish. Beginning in 5,000 BC 
       with Uruk, the world's first city, immortalized in The 
       Epic of Gilgamesh, he shows us that cities were never a 
       necessity, but that once they existed, their density 
       created such a blossoming of human endeavour--producing 
       new professions, art forms, worship and trade--that they 
       kickstarted civilization itself. Guiding readers through 
       famous cities over 7,000 years, Wilson reveals the 
       innovations driven by each: civics in the agora of Athens,
       global trade in 9th century Baghdad, finance in the 
       coffeehouses of London, domestic comforts in the heart of 
       Amsterdam, peacocking in Belle Epoque Paris. In the modern
       age, he studies the impact of verticality in New York City,
       the sprawl of LA and the eco-reimagining of 21st-century 
       Shanghai. Lively, erudite, page-turning and irresistible, 
       Metropolis is a grand tour of human endeavour"--|cProvided
       by publisher. 
650  0 Cities and towns|xHistory. 
775 08 |iReproduction of (manifestation):|aWilson, Ben, 1980-
       |tMetropolis|dLondon : Jonathan Cape, 2020|z9781787330436