by Ben Wilson · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789899033290
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«Metrópoles», a historical essay by Ben Wilson on cities, published by Desassossego in paperback (480 pages, in Portuguese).
Ben Wilson argues that cities, far from being a necessity, generated most political, social, commercial, scientific and artistic revolutions. The book demonstrates this with a journey from Uruk to the present day, with stops in Athens, Rome, Lisbon, London, New York and Shanghai, and with portraits of everyday life.
Translation from English of «Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention» (2020), finalist for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize in 2021.
For readers of history, urbanism and sociology, as well as for those seeking a global vision of civilization through its cities.
Wilson Alwyn Bentley, also known as Snowflake Bentley, was an American meteorologist and photographer, who was the first known person to take detailed photographs of snowflakes and record their features. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet such that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimated, and elaborated the theory that no two snowflakes are identical.
