{"product_id":"urban-being","title":"Urban Being","description":"There is a long tradition of comparing  cities with organisms as they have simi - larities in their anatomy. But since cities  are brought into life by the presence of  people, they are less living beings than  urban beings with their own identity.  This is based on the behaviors, needs  and requirements of the residents.  In other words, the anatomy of the  city informs its identity - certain city  structures, wherever they are, are in - fluenced in similar ways by the people  who interact with them.  This volume shows and makes un - derstandable these influences on the  living environments of the inhabitants.  Through detailed charts and elaborate  maps generated from satelite images  various city structures are compared  across five different dimensions and  their influence on the city's identity  through the lived experience of the  inhabitants is discussed. These range  from local urban cells, explorable by  foot, and urban centers to macro- regions, agglomerations of many  hundreds of cities that stretch across  thousands of kilometers.","brand":"bnb media gmbh, Zurich","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42665184395300,"sku":"9783721209686","price":65.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783721209686.jpg?v=1776900026","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/urban-being","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}