This engaging book with die-cut pages invites children to visit exciting cities around the globe.
This glorious guide is packed with: • Dazzling full-color photographs • Spot locator maps for each city • Fact boxes of statistics for each city • Historical dates and special events • Interesting facts and trivia
This coffee table book makes a great gift and an excellent reference guide for anyone interested in geography, history, and culture. It includes a DVD with in-depth footage of key cities portrayed in the book.
The complete reprint of all 363 color plates from Braun and Hogenberg's survey of town maps, city views, and plans of Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central America, with dozens of unusual details, as well as selected extracts from the original ...
Cities of the World
This book brings together the leading researchers in the field to write seventeen original essays which cover both the theoretical and practical issues involved.
Finally, answer the counting question in each scene. There’s always something new to spot in Cities Around the World, meaning children will want to read it again and again.
Each page is packed with facts on city living - from food and festivals to architecture and history. This stunning compendium of cities is the perfect gift for curious kids everywhere.
Here, Timberlake reminded urban scholars of McKenzie's decades-old conclusions regarding the existence of a world city system governed by core–periphery relations. Subscribing to what might be called world system's city theory, ...
In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues.