# The City

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- Book: [The City](https://www.bookquiver.com/joel-kotkin/the-city) ([The City.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joel-kotkin/the-city.md))
- Authors: [Joel Kotkin](https://www.bookquiver.com/joel-kotkin)
- Publisher: modern_library
- ISBN: 978-03-7575-651-1
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2006-10-10
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this...