<b>Threading memoir and personal reflections with travelogue philosophy photography and references from a wide variety of writers and thinkers <i>The City and the World</i> is a captivating illuminating and expansive journey into the heart of the modern city.</b><p>In <i>The City and the World</i> Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Hens travels the world - from Berlin to Las Vegas to Shenzen from Cologne to Santiago de Chile to Paris - reading walking and swimming asking how we perceive the city and how it may perceive us. </p>