Martine Drozdz, Quintin Leeds, Mathilde Moaty and Hugo Leeds have just published their book *La Ville. Une infographie.* with CNRS Editions.
“Did you know that, since 2020, the roads, infrastructure and buildings constructed by humankind weigh more than the planet’s entire living biomass? That nearly 1 billion cameras monitor our cities, often installed by the residents themselves? Or that during heatwaves, the temperature difference between certain neighbourhoods and the surrounding natural areas can exceed 10 °C?
The city is one of humanity’s greatest inventions. This book chronicles the world’s great urban transformation through original infographics, based on the latest research.
From data centres to sanctuary cities, from business districts to oases of cool, from holiday homes to Olympic villages, this book explores the many ways in which we live in, build, monitor, protect and transform cities.
At a time when cities are both the focus of the greatest environmental challenges and a key source of solutions, this new volume in the Homo Graphicus series offers a different way of understanding the urban world, its history and the diversity of its possible futures.”
Book: ‘The City: An Infographic’
