Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention by Ben Wilson

Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention

Ben Wilson

448 pages first pub 2020 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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From a brilliant young historian, a colorful 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, not...

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