{"product_id":"cities-9781471163654","title":"Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA FASCINATING INVESTIGATION INTO THE HISTORY OF CITIES: WHY DID THEY OCCUR, HOW HAVE THEY EVOLVED, WHY DO SO MANY OF US CHOOSE TO LIVE IN THEM AND HOW DO THEY AFFECT US?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘Monica Smith is the person best qualified to write a book about the big problems raised by the increasing concentration of the human population into cities. She also has a gift for vivid writing that will make the science of cities come to life for the broad public. I expect that CITIES will be a great read and will sell well.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJared Diamond, author of Collapse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Over half of the world’s population lives in an urban area and cities around the globe are getting bigger and bigger.  Love them or hate them, more and more of us are choosing to live in them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCities\u003c\/b\u003e investigates the following intriguing questions: why did cities start to occur around 6,000 years ago, how have they evolved, why do so many of us choose to li","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408688128343,"sku":"9781471163654","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cities-9781471163654","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}