Lonely Planet The Cities Book (General Pictorial)
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Author: Lonely PlanetEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-11-01
ISBN: 1741798876
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Lonely Planet
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Book Review: people
Summary: 1 Stars
'People that might live in a city somewhere on Earth'. That is what this book should have been titled.
Yes, without people there would be no cities, but this book shows way to many people & not enough architecture, or other things that make a unique city unique. There are way too many pictures such as the following (& these are the big pictures (each city has 2 pages, on one page there is a big photo, on the other 2 or 3 small photos)):
Auckland - a guy on a sailboat
Beruit - close up of a beautiful young woman applying lipstick as she prepares to go out on the town.
Belfast - close up of some kids
Belieze City - some people dancing at a nightclub
Berlin - a bar
Bridgetown - 2 people walking away
Cape Town - a couple at a table in a restuarant
Cardiff - a guy looking at records in a record shop
Los Angeles - a boy wearing a baseball cap at a baseball field
New York City - 2 people sitting down on a subway train looking at each kind of funny
Tokyo - 4 boys in their wrestling outfits (at least that is probably unique to Japan)
many pictures of people getting a hair cut or a shave or exercising or walking or drinking.
very few urban landscapes. nothing at all showing Toyko's urban scene - its only the largest urban area on earth with many fine examples of architecture and engineering. Nothing of Manhatten's skyline (maybe that would be cliche).
any of these photos would be fine if included in a more detailed look at any particular city, but when there are 3 or 4 photos used to represent a city, they are grossly inadequate.
A minority of the photos in this book reveal something unique about the place where the photo was taken, even fewer make me say to myself "ooh, I want to go there"
Summary of Lonely Planet The Cities Book (General Pictorial)
Cities represent civilization and human achievement: they are bubbling microcosms of virtues and vices, vanguards of technology and creative pursuits, incubators of traditions and melting pots of diversity. More than half the world's population now lives in cities, and for travelers they hold an endless fascination.Every city has its own personality, in the form of its streets and buildings and in its human architecture. Taking our cue from the buzz on the street, we have captured the flavor of each city through the eyes of the typical citizen: hot conversation topics, urban myths, the best places to eat and rink and to seek out after dark. It's a tempting cocktail for the urban adventurer.
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