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The spirit of cities

Why the identity of a city matters in a global age

by LINTON J
The spirit of cities
Published in June 2012 - Page 37

Daniel A. Bell and Avner de-Shalit
Princeton University Press,
Princeton, 2011
ISBN: 978-0-691-15144-1

This book is all about the ethos or spirit of a city, and why having one matters in today’s globalized world. Daniel Bell1 and Avner de-Shalit are professors of political theory specializing in globalization, democracy, and related topics – Bell at the Centre for International and Comparative Political Philosophy in Beijing, and de-Shalit with the Faculty of Social Sciences at

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