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"[An] inspired tour of the post modern city…Invigorating." —Mark Kingwell, Harper’s

Hailed as an “original and fascinating book” (Times Literary Supplement), A History of Future Cities is Daniel Brook’s captivating investigation of four “instant cities”—St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai—that sought to catapult themselves into the future by emulating the West.

A study of the four "great East-meets-West cities"

Peter's two-decade campaign to import Western architecture, art, and technology into backward Russia is emblematic of the history of what Brook calls "the great East-meets-West cities." He also writes about Shanghai, Bombay, and Dubai. Each, in its own way, represents a similar story. All four cities have served historically as the principal point of entry for global influence into a vast territory: Russian, Chinese, Indian, and Arab. All four, in his estimation, were "built to look as if they were not where they were."

All four cities are (or were) global financial centers

Brooks's focus in A History of Future Cities is on architecture. He describes in detail the most noticeable buildings and the architects who designed them. Yet, even for a reader with little interest in architecture, the book is rewarding for its history of the four cities. The author has a winning way of highlighting the outsize role each of the four has played in the history of its region. In each of the four cases, that history has revolved around business and finance. Three of the four are major global financial centers to this day; the exception is St. Petersburg, which has been deliberately downgraded in favor of Moscow by the Russian government.

Yet with the importation of Western technology and architecture came Western ideas about government and society. Thus, it's "no coincidence that St. Petersburg birthed the Bolsheviks, Shanghai the Chinese Communist Party, and Mumbai the Indian National Congress, all forces that pulled back their nations' ties to the outside world."

Urbanization, globalization, and the future of humanity

Now, as Brook writes in an Introduction, "the historic gateway cities are no longer anomalies; they are the original examples of an idea that has gone viral." Everywhere in the world today, what we call urbanization and globalization have taken hold. From Lagos to Sao Paulo to Manila, there is no major city on the planet that has not felt the impact of the forces that shaped the history of St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai. Daniel Brook helps us understand the dynamics of those forces—and glimpse the future we face.

Name: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Each metropolis conjures the captivating yet discomfiting sense of disorientation."
Date: Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2013
Review: This book follows the inception and the progress of four cities; St. Petersburg ,Shanghai, Bombay, and Dubai. They share two important characteristics: they were planned as cities of the future and they are Eastern cities oriented toward the West. He points out that Orient is a noun meaning east and a verb meaning to place oneself in space. All four of these cities were founded on a vision. Peter the Great converted a swampy backwater into his vision of Amsterdam, then the wealthiest city on the earth. Historians have often noted that the city appeared as if set there from the sky. Shanghai was the vision of foreign investors. After forcing China to open its gates to trade, they developed Shanghai as the modern foreign capital of import/export. Bombay was modeled on the British model of civilization and commerce. Dubai was the dream of a sheikh to build infrastructure and convert a desert into the center of the world.

The premise of the city of tomorrow is a fascinating one, and this book is a wealth of information. Brook has a scholarly style and the reading is dense but accessable. I am familiar with all four cities, but was interested and surprised by many of the observations. Brooks compares and contrasts the cities through the years of their growth and development. In Dubai's case, there are not so many years. He discusses how the architecture reflects the philosophy of each period and traces the trends of building in context of politics. In the final section, he examines the status of each city and the ways it has or has not lived to the dream of its inception.

Most cogent to me was reading how each of the cities had the same startling appearance to the world in their birth as Dubai presents now. Each city has had a dream for its citizens, although mostly this dream was only meant for the wealthy and sometimes for some nationalities and not others. But in its day, each city depended for its growth on the huge numbers of refugees seeking work and shelter within its walls. It is a fascinating premise and a book well worth reading.

Name: Niala
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: for lovers of cities!
Date: Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2013
Review: This book describes the transformations of four artificially created cities: St Petersburg, Mumbai, Shanghai and Dubai. Cities open on the world but without an hinterland. Their architecture and mores borrowed from outside . But on this apparent artificial soil an incredible creative culture flourished. The first Chinese newspaper free of censorship appeared in Shanghai in the 30s, in a city created by opium traders!
This book is a celebration of cities as international meeting places of cultures, ideas and technology.

Name: hh
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Well done survey
Date: Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2014
Review: This is a well thought out survey of up and comer cities throughout the last few centuries. It identifies cycles of growth, overgrowth, reinvention, stagnation, revolution and hope that are worth considering today as we look at our own urban hubs and follow their evolution. HFC is a thinking person's time travel book to urban centers that promised to change the world (in fact, they did).