The City: A Dictionary of Quotable Thoughts on Cities and Urban Life

Clapp, James A.

ISBN 10: 0882850954 / ISBN 13: 9780882850955

Editore: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1984

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A prior business that apparently owned the book has a stamp on the ffep. There is yellow highlighting mostly in the first half of the work. Volume itself has crimson cloth covers with sharp gold lettering on the spine. Dust jacket has a trace of edge and corner wear. 288 oversized pages. A serviceable copy.

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• Titolo: The City: A Dictionary of Quotable Thoughts on Cities and Urban Life
• Editore: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0882850954
• ISBN 13: 9780882850955
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very Good

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Riassunto

The City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A. Clapp has arranged, with excellent woodcut illustrations, more than three thousand quotations—epigrams, epithets, verses, proverbs, scriptural references, witticisms, lyrics, literary references, and historical observations—on urban life from antiquity until the present. These quotes are drawn from the written and spoken words of more than one thousand writers throughout history.

This volume, with contributions from speakers, poets, song writers, politicians philosophers, scientists, religious leaders, historians, social scientists, humorists, architects, journalists, and travelers from and to many lands is designed to be used by writers, speechmakers, students, and scholars on cities and urban life. The City contains an author index, and a subject index ranging from anti-urbanism to zoning codes. Clapp’s text is noteworthy for its sharp contrasts of urban and rural life and the urbanization process in different historical times and geographical areas.

The work features a guide to cities index ranging from Accra to Zurich. The scope of the book is international, including entries on most major and not a few lesser cities of the world. These include historical commentaries ranging from writings at the beginning of recorded history to contemporary observations on urban planning and styles. The illustrations and designs prepared by Rene Kammeyer provide excellent and imaginative guides to the text. The work is noteworthy for its pleasures and as well insights.

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Book by Clapp James A