A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly... Or are they? As Edward Glaeser proves in this myth-shattering book, cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in cultural and economic terms) places to live. New Yorkers, for instance, live longer than other Americans; heart disease and cancer rates are lower in Gotham than in the nation as a whole. More than half of America's income is earned in twenty-two metropolitan areas. And city dwellers use, on average, 40 percent less energy than suburbanites. Glaeser travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Even the worst cities-Kinshasa, Kolkata, Lagos- confer surprising benefits on the people who flock to them, including better health and more jobs than the rural areas that surround them. Glaeser visits Bangalore and Silicon Valley, whose strangely similar histories prove how essential education is to urban success and how new technology actually encourages people to gather together physically. He discovers why Detroit is dying while other old industrial cities-Chicago, Boston, New York-thrive. He investigates why a new house costs 350 percent more in Los Angeles than in Houston, even though building costs are only 25 percent higher in L.A. He pinpoints the single factor that most influences urban growth-January temperatures-and explains how certain chilly cities manage to defy that link. He explains how West Coast environmentalists have harmed the environment, and how struggling cities from Youngstown to New Orleans can "shrink to greatness." And he exposes the dangerous anti-urban political bias that is harming both cities and the entire country. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and eloquent argument, Glaeser makes an impassioned case for the city's import and splendor. He reminds us forcefully why we should nurture our cities or suffer consequences that will hurt us all, no matter where we live.

日本的水利（史）研究在国际上享有盛誉，除了后来加入美籍魏特夫的治水理论之外，日本学者提出的“水利共同体”理论在国际上影响甚大，近年来亦是中国学界的讨论主题之一。日本中国水利史研究会已经成立了约半个世纪，该论文集选译了该会第一、二、三代学者的中国水利史研究论文。作者包括：丰岛静英、好并隆司、森田明、川胜守、滨岛敦俊、鹤间和幸、松田吉郎等一批国际知名学者。内容主要分为几大部分：中国水利研究总论及理论，其中包括丰岛静英为代表的水利共同体理论，环境与水利，水利与国家，水利与地域社会，水利与人物等，全书约30位作者，45万字。

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《上海网络与近代东亚:19世纪后半期东亚的贸易与交流》内容简介：2000年9月，因参加在北京举行的“第二届近代中国与世界国际学术研讨会”，我有幸认识古田和子，她是我提交会议论文的评论员。会后，承蒙她惠赠《上海网络与近代东亚:19世纪后半期东亚的贸易与交流》日文原著，得以先睹为快，领略了她驾驭史料的娴熟技巧和剖析问题的缜密思辨。如今欣闻她的大作将由中国社会科学出版社出版中译本，列入《中国近代史研究译丛》，出版社邀我撰写中译本序言，盛情难却，欣然应允。然提笔之际，颇感踌躇。贸然为名著作序，恐非本人学识所能担当。是故，在此仅能谈谈我再次通读全书之后的片段感触，冀望能有助于读者对《上海网络与近代东亚:19世纪后半期东亚的贸易与交流》的理解。

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