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在How to Build a City一书中，作者Gabriella Bennett探讨了人类居家的未来。她研究了世界各地的不同城市，看不同地方如何改造自己来应对现代生活的不同挑战。我们跟着作者环游世界，思考地球上的城镇该如何看向未来，面对人口过剩、气候变化以及战争等时事。作者将这些不同城市编制在一起，透过一个正面、有希望的视觉给读者分析这一切。
作者透过城市规划以及建筑学的角度来探讨人类学以及我们为了适应这个改变的世界做过什么、在做什么，以及需要在未来做什么。她走遍世界各地，见识了人类创造力的非凡范例，帮助人们解决当今困扰我们城镇的许多问题，并试图找到更好、更可持续、更有弹性和更幸福的生活方式。在社会和政治不稳定、全球干旱和洪水、资源和空间压力增大等巨大变化的时代，作者鼓励我们重新思考建筑和城市规划的影响所提供的机遇。
这是一本国际的书，从苏格兰到沙特阿拉伯，作者拜访了许多不同城市。作者的文笔非常亲切、熟悉，本书的结构也被分为三大章：为了地球、为了人民、为了和平。
作者还在研究以及写这本书，所以也非常愿意接受建议，如果任何出版社想提议一个城市或者主题，她也愿意考虑。
关于作者：
Gabriella Bennett is so perfectly placed to write this book; growing up in the experimental Scottish New Town of Glenrothes, built post World War II to house tens of thousands of people in brand-new modernist houses that signalled a new way of living, Gabriella’s interest in the impact of radical building was sparked at an early age. Specialising in housing in her journalism, she now spends her life assessing architectural sites to understand how they influence ways of living in the present and future. Gabriella writes for The Times and The Sunday Times and her work has featured in The Guardian, The Observer amongst others. In 2021 she was named Travel Writer of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards. In 2019 she was the recipient of the Mairi Hedderwick Travel Writing Award from Moniack Mhor, Scotland’s National Writing Centre. Her previous book, The Art of Coorie (2018), was a Waterstones Bestseller and has been translated into French and Russian.
来自编辑的好评：
‘As soon as I started reading Gabriella’s incredible writing, I just knew we had to publish her at Headline. HOW TO BUILD A CITY is an ambitious exploration of the future of homes in the face of challenges such as climate change, war, overpopulation and loneliness. Celebrating the ingenuity of human creativity to design and make the homes, neighbourhoods and cities of tomorrow, Gabriella offers a beautifully written and thought-provoking insight into where we live and why it matters. I’m thrilled to be working with her.’