{"product_id":"city-and-the-world","title":"City and the World","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCity and the World\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGregor Hens\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781804271698\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFitzcarraldo Editions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e330\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe City and the World\u003c\/em\u003e, Gregor Hens explores the city in the twenty-first century - a space we shape and are shaped by in turn - and our place within it. Travelling from Berlin to Las Vegas, Shenzhen to Santiago de Chile, he moves through these pulsing, ever-expanding cityscapes, reading, walking, swimming, riding the metro and catching the bus, bearing witness to the strange vitality of urban life. Everywhere, catalysts for new understandings emerge. Pushing his young daughter's pram turns Berlin upside-down. Students' exercises in getting lost and reorienting themselves throw into question notions of centre and periphery. Google Maps becomes an unexpected gallery, offering new ways of encountering art and architecture. Buildings hold their own histories and secrets, illuminated by chroniclers of Hens's cities, from Virginia Woolf and Georges Perec to Rem Koolhaas and Valeria Luiselli. Even libraries become cities in their own right. Blending memoir, travelogue and philosophy with photography and literary insights, \u003cem\u003eThe City and the World\u003c\/em\u003e is a witty, captivating, illuminating and expansive journey into the heart of the modern city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Fitzcarraldo Editions","offers":[{"title":"City and the World | Gregor Hens | Paperback | 9781804271698 | New | Travelogues 1701139","offer_id":50830084047106,"sku":"1701139","price":34.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/5190_AHbsdL.jpg?v=1792588088","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/city-and-the-world","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}