Metropolis
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Lawrence Norfolk enjoys Cities, John Reader's fascinating account of
how the urban jungle grows and sometimes crumbles
Saturday September 11, 2004
The Guardian
Cities
by John Reader
400pp, William Heinemann £20
Polluting, parasitic, overcrowded and violent: cities have always been
popular with humans. They've needed to be. From the 35,000 inhabitants
of Sumerian Ur, 4,000 years ago, to the current chart-topper - Tokyo,
home to 26 million - cities have consistently buried more people than
they have produced. They also eat more food than they grow, drink more
water than they collect and, the inevitable consequence, excrete more
sewage than they know what to do with. But, for all their faults, we
like these greedy, incontinent monsters. Half the world's population
lives in cities, and that share is growing.
John Reader
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