Global Cities 17 - Jakarta: How the City Lives Ebook

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  • livre numérique
  • 1230009118386
  • 15 juin 2025
  • EPUB2
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Global Cities: How the World Really Lives is the acclaimed narrative nonfiction series that dives deep into the soul of one city per volume – blending history, humor, sensory storytelling, and social insight. Forget listicles and layovers: this is how cities actually feel, sound, and work when you live them, not just visit them.

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Jakarta: The City That Refuses to Behave is a chaotic, captivating, and oddly poetic love letter to one of the world’s most misunderstood megacities. In a place where nothing works exactly as it should – but everything somehow gets done – this book dives into what keeps Jakarta pulsing and its people laughing, eating, worshiping, and enduring, often all at once.

From its ancient origins as a spice-trade port to its current role as the sprawling, sinking, overstimulated heart of Indonesia, Jakarta is a city that defies planning and demands improvisation. Here, colonial ghosts coexist with glass towers. Motorbikes outnumber rules. Floods are seasonal, but so is generosity. You’ll explore traffic as philosophy, street food as theology, and informal neighborhoods (kampungs) as case studies in urban resilience.

With chapters on everything from religious pluralism to K-pop hijab fashion, from underground punk mosques to ojek motorcycle poetry, this is Jakarta the way locals live it: full of contradictions, charm, noise, and near-magical elasticity.

Part cultural deep-dive, part walking meditation, part comic field report from the front lines of climate, capitalism, and everyday urban endurance – Jakarta is your immersive guide to a city that doesn’t care what you expected, but might just change what you believe a city can be.

Whether you're a curious traveler, a global city geek, or just trying to understand the chaos in your Google Maps app, this is Jakarta as you've never seen it: maddening, magnificent, and moving forward whether you’re ready or not.

Perfect for readers of Bill Bryson, Jan Morris, or anyone who’s ever tried to cross a six-lane road without dying.

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15 juin 2025
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Ozone Books
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Alexandra Rizzi

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