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Title: Awful Writing, Terrible Editing
Review: I hate to write a bad review about a book about cities, since I love reading about them, but this one is awful. Typographical errors seem to be on every page, and writing is atrocious. Whole sections of the chapter on Tokyo are cut-and-paste duplicates (or very nearly so) of each other. The pictures and charts are god-awful. Several look they were taken from the window of a commercial jet. The data was old when it was published and are ancient today. Some chapters and sections are lucid and interesting, but most are not. I just can't imagine this book being very useful to anyone.
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