Peter Hall explores the history of cities and their role in the development of civilization, from the cultural crucibles of Athens in the sixth century BC and Florence in the fifteenth century through the industrial innovations of Manchester, cotton and steam, and Palo Alto, computing, to the city as freeway, Los Angeles.
- ISBN10 0753808153
- ISBN13 9780753808153
- Publish Date 9 September 1999 (first published 9 November 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 June 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 1184
- Language English