InThe City and the WorldGregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city andour 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. Threading memoir and personal reflections with travelogue, philosophy, photography and references from a wide variety of writers and thinkers,The City and the Worldis a captivating, illuminating and expansive journey into the heart of the modern city.