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The Cities Book (General Pictorial)

Description

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.

Reviews

Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2009-12-26
Summary: "people"

'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"

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2008-12-30
Summary: "Unclear who the audience for this book is..."

I was looking for a book that had a few great pictures of each city and a bit of commentary. I'm more than willing to overlook the commentary -- how could any 1 page of bullet-point text ever really capture a city? But the commentary is weak -- a bizarre mix of pseudo-hipness and hackneyed stereotypes that may have been apt 20 years ago (if ever).

What I found unforgivable are the pictures. The only explanation I can come up with is they let loose an amateur photographer with instructions to be "artistic". Poor-quality pictures included of Paris: The canvas canopy of a pizzeria, pastries, the underside of the Eiffel tower, a couple kissing in a cafe. Of Rome: The face of a statue, a blurry shot of a street, a slice of a colonnade, 2 men with the city in the background. Lisbon: A tram in a narrow street next to hanging laundry, 3 undistinguished houses, a woman in a window and a crowded beach.

I've spent time in many of the cities covered and can't fathom why they chose the photographs included. They don't capture the cities and they are not good stand-alone photos.

I was looking forward to an interesting read with some evocative pictures. I don't recognize most of the cities as depicted in the book -- including New York where I live. I strained to identify all but 1 of the pictures (close shot of 2 women in the subway, a blurry shot of 2 cabs, a painting in a gallery at MOMA and the Apollo Theater sign). A little New York nit: how can one of New York's "strengths" be Dean & DeLuca and a "weakness" be "the coffee". One can find any style of really great coffee in NYC -- and Dean & DeLuca has some of it.

The book has the feel of an 8th grade social studies textbook. With the odd commentary and bad photos -- completely grim.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2008-09-16
Summary: "Quality for its purpose"

I feel that this book is fairly good quality for what (I believe) was intended of it. I have the Travel Book and was excited to purchase this book also. It is a beautiful coffee table book and many guests flip through it even though they already have before.

While I can agree with everyone's comments about the cities that are included. I find it completely ridiculous that people are whining about what cities are included. Its done, that book is published. Yes some great cities are left out, I have been to many of them. But Lonely Planet put together a decent list of cities, I am not sure that anyone would ever agree with the rankings. But the Title is "The Cities Book", the subtitle even says the best cities in the world, NOT the highest ranked/favorite cities. Its just showing readers a informative/pictorial narrative of A FEW of the world's best cities. You can find amazing cities all over the world. My advice to you find some of them, either in this book or on your own, and go visit them.

This book does give an excellent quick glance at these great cities, and thus serves its purpose.... 4 stars!!

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2008-02-12
Summary: "Ranking Cities is a Fool's Task"

Unexpected below par book from Lonely Planet. Fair to middling at best! I gave it one star overall. This book's purport to rank world cities is a fool's endeavor. The rankings are totally subjective and are based on opinion. I consider myself a well traveled individual, and unless one has personal knowledge of each city to be ranked, they can not provide a valid ranking of any one city as it compares to all the other ranked cities. Not a valid reference work, a non-scientific amalgamation of mere opinion; to be read by those with too much time on their hands. Thanks.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2007-11-18
Summary: "Skewed rating"

Flipping through this book, I couldn't help but to have a feeling that, aside from the top 10 cities, the Lonely Planet city ratings are pretty skewed.

The majority of submissions are probably done by backpackers who sneer at the "mainstream" cities and go out of their way to convince us the "obscure" ones are more "cool". In my opinion, Han Hoi (23) or Kathmandu (13) may be exotic to the unfamiliar eyes, but I fail to see how they are ranked much higher than Florence (24), Shanghai (48), or Delhi (60).

Some cities (no names mentioned) are simply, for the lack of more polite terms, wrecks, and yet they show up on the list in relatively high ranks. When evaluating the "goodness" of a city, stablity should be a pretty important criterion. But it is understandable how these young adventurous travellers who end up in these places would overlook this factor.

Not that I think they should exclude these "underdog" cities from making it to the list, but for the cities that already have a reputation, there are reasons that reputation is there in the first place. The evaluators should keep that in mind, and not let their passion cloud their judgment, whether be it for the sake of representation, political opinion, or simply to be different.

Another peeve of mine about this book, is that much better pictures could be used to represent certain cities. But I suppose sometimes Lonely Planet is at the mercy of the same travellers for footage. This begs the question, would the lack of "good" pictures indicative of the lack of willing travelers? If so, does it have something to say about the skewness of the Lonely Planet ranking system?