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The World`s Best Cities: Celebrating 220 Great Urban Destinations

Giving a nod to the Century of the City, the World`s Best Cities – the next in National Geographic`s best-selling large-format gift book collection – celebrates the terroir of more than 300 of the world`s great and upcoming cities with a playful panoply of lavish photo galleries and insightful text, including must-do walks, local secrets, oddities, and more. Delving into the heart and soul of more than 300 cities worldwide, this National Geographic travel volume is a glossy, glorious tribute to cosmopolitan life. A stately, luscious celebration of photos and words, it showcases all of the world`s great cities – Paris, Rome, New York, London–and up-coming ones as well – including Denver, Asheville, Auckland (New Zealand) and Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) – through a playful, informative mix of inspirational personal narratives; walking tours; thematic photo galleries; plus sidebars on oddities; shopping cart; novel introductions (novels that offer a sense of the city); local secrets; and more. Additional cities are treated with illustrated lists, such as the world`s best fashion cities; foodie cities; and garden cities.The twenty-first century is the Century of the City, and for on-the-go travellers and armchair travellers alike The World`s Best Cities is a must-have for all urban adventurers.