The City: A Global History (Modern Library Chronicles Series Book 21) (36 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JOEL KOTKIN is an Irvine senior fellow with the New America Foundation, which is based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of five books, including
Tribes
and
The New Geography,
both published by Random House.

Kotkin is a frequent contributor to
The Washington Post, The
Wall Street Journal, Inc.
magazine, the
American Enterprise,
and the
Los Angeles Times
“Opinion” section. He also serves as a senior fellow of the Newman Institute at Baruch College of the City University of New York and lectures at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

He lives in Valley Village, Los Angeles, with his wife, Mandy, and two daughters, Ariel and Hannah.

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2006 Modern Library Paperback Edition

Copyright © 2005 by Joel Kotkin

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Kotkin, Joel.
The city: a global history / Joel Kotkin.
p. cm. — (Modern Library chronicles)
Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-0-307-43204-9

1. Cities and towns—History. 2. Sociology, Urban. 3. Civilization. I. Title. II. Series.
HT111.K.76’09—dc22 2004058167

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