{"id":643,"date":"2005-10-29T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=643"},"modified":"2005-10-29T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T15:19:00","slug":"two-more-books-to-read-and-an-interesting-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"Two (more) books to read, and an interesting thesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ends of Constantinople and Venice &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/reviews\/history\/0,6121,1602847,00.html\">this review<\/a> takes them together, recommends both, then suggests:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cities are entering a new golden age. Like the great city states of 15th-century Italy, modern cities such as New York and Hong Kong have become dynamos of wealth and creativity, increasingly distinct in tempo and mentality from their surrounding state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d put London in that grouping too. The geographers say that Bangkok is the most extreme &#8220;primate&#8221; city &#8211; drawing in all the wealth and skills from the national hinterland, but London must come close to its rival in that category. <\/p>\n<p>It is an interesting thought that this might be necesssary for a great city &#8211; this article suggests Paris and Moscow haven&#8217;t managed it, so have been dragged down by their hinterland.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d really not care to live anywhere in the UK except in London (well except maybe Oxford and Cambridge, but university towns are a special case). The rest really is a different country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ends of Constantinople and Venice &#8211; this review takes them together, recommends both, then suggests: Cities are entering a new golden age. Like the great city states of 15th-century Italy, modern cities such as New York and Hong Kong have become dynamos of wealth and creativity, increasingly distinct in tempo and mentality from their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}