Its wealth of facts and clean, abstract design, the Metropolitan World Atlas is a must-buy.
Despite the burgeoning interest in metropolitan growth and globalization there has been no way of directly comparing metropolises - until now, that is. This atlas offers a unique survey of global trade networks and their impact on metropolitan space. It documents a total of 101 metropolises, analysing them in easy-to-read ground plans. It also includes index numbers and tables regarding such aspects as population, density, pollution, travel time, data traffic, air and water travel and the size of Central Business Districts. Its unexpected combination of ground plans and statistics makes this atlas a unique work of reference where for the first time metropolitan areas like Beijing, Lagos, London, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo can be compared with one another and in terms of their position in the global urban network.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful but outdated,
By AshokLA (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Metropolitan World Atlas (Paperback)
This is a beautiful book with great graphics. Unfortunately, it is outdated. The population data is from 2000! It would not be that hard for the authors to update this book, but until they do it is unfortunately not worth purchasing as a reference work. Three stars for the concept and execution.
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Visually pleasing, but very basic.,
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This book is pretty neat. I was expecting it to have very in depth information and maps of cities. What it has, instead, is a very basic statistical outline of a slew of cities around the world. The layout for each city's page is the same, which is helpful for locating and comparing info. However, many cities have a good amount of data missing. The data seems to be pulled from a couple of sources exclusively. I was hoping for a more comprehensive guide/ref book. This isn't everything I was hoping for, but I still enjoy it a lot.
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