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'Peter J. Taylor has produced a sweeping, empirically grounded, defense of cities as fundamental building blocks of longterm, large scale social structures; a way of freeing social science from statecentric bias; and indeed, mankind's hope. However, the single greatest strength of this complex, seductive, argument is the insistence on treating cities relationally, as process. Here the key to understanding the significance of cities is by studying them in terms of the dynamic networks they form and in their relations to states.' Richard E. Lee, Binghamton University, USAccepting that cities are extraordinary, this book provides an original citycentred narrative of human creativity, past, present and future.In this innovative, ambitious and wideranging book, Peter Taylor demonstrates that cities are the epicenters of human advancement. In exploring cities as sites through which economies flourish, by harnessing the creative potential of myriad communication networks, the author considers cities from varying temporal and spatial perspectives. Four stories of cities are told: the origins of city networks; the domination of cities by worldempires; the genesis of a singular modern creative interval in which innovation culminates in today s globalised cities; and finally, the need for cities to act as centres for human creativity to produce a more resilient global society in the current crisis century.Providing a longterm view through which to consider the role of cities in attending to incipient crises of the twentyfirst century, this closely argued thesis will prove essential for students and scholars of urban studies, geography and sociology, and all those with a professional interest in, or personal fascination for, cities.Contents: Preface Part I: Setting Down and Setting Up 1. A Cities' Perspective 2. Conceptual Toolkits Part II: Narrative I: Beginning Conjectures 3. City and State Beginnings: Western Asia's Great Creative Interlude 4. Geographies of Beginning Creative Interludes Part III: Narrative II: Worldsystems 5. Normal History 6. Making the Modern Worldsystem: Western Europe's Great Creative Interlude Part IV: Narrative III: Prospective Conjectures Where Are We and Where Are We Going? 7. Working in an Urban World 8. Towards Green Networks of Cities for the Twentyfirst Century References Index
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