<p>In The City and the World, Gregor Hens explores the city in the twenty-first century ? a space we shape and are shaped by in turn ? and our place within it. Travelling from Berlin to Las Vegas, Shenzhen to Santiago de Chile, he moves through these pulsing, ever-expanding cityscapes, reading, walking, swimming, riding the metro and catching the bus, bearing witness to the strange vitality of urban life. Everywhere, catalysts for new understandi...