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Cities are where the twenty-first century is absolutely going to occur. Already at the beginning of the hundred years, we became 50% metropolitan as a global inhabitants, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% metropolitan. So cities could either be our coffin or our ark. Leo Hollis presents evidence that cities can deliver a better life and a better world in the future. From discovering what slime mildew can tell us about traffic stream, to considering how traditional civic electricity constructions are being overturned by Tweets, to looking into how cities around the globe are tackling environment change, population expansion, poverty, shifting work patterns and the maintenance of the fragile trust of their citizens, Places Are Best for You offers a fresh perspective on the town.Combining anecdote, scientific studies, historical portraits, first-hand interviews and observations of some of the most exciting world cities, Hollis upends long-held assumptions with new questions: Where do cities result from? Can we build a city from damage? Does surviving in the city make you more happy or fitter? May be the metropolis of the future female? What is the partnership between cities and creativity? And are slums really everything that bad?Places Are Best for You presents us to dreamers, planners, revolutionaries, writers, researchers, architects, slum-dwellers and kings. Ranging globally and through amount of time in search of answers--from the archive to the lab, from City Hall to the architect's desk--it is above all driven by the idea that cities are for people and by people.
