Joel Kotkin On 5 Millennia Of Cities

Excerpt from a new book by a leading thinker about cities.

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April 19, 2005, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Joel Kotkin, one of the country's leading thinkers about cities, has just published "The City: A Global History". The Next American City has an exclusive excerpt.

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