Dimensions
155 x 233 x 55mm
Culture, Innovation, and Urban Order.
Why should great cities have golden ages? How do these golden ages come about? What makes a particular city, at a particular time, suddenly become immensely creative, exceptionally innovative?
Professor Hall both explores the achievement of these golden ages, telling rich and fascinating stories of the complex conditions that made them possible, and examines the reasons why they happened where they did. The creativity of cities has not been limited to the arts and culture; the stories of ancient Athens, Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan London and Weimar Berlin are followed by explorations of industrially and technologically innovative cities: Manchester and cotton, Detroit and cars, Silicon Valley and Tokyo and electronics, and the two cities that have contributed most to the development of twentieth century popular culture - the marriage of art and technology - Los Angeles with the movies and the remarkable story of Memphis and the birth of blues, R & B and rock and roll. This is the definitive exploration of the culture of cities for our generations.
