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BOOKS ABOUT CITIES & URBAN PLANNING
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Mumbai, the largest city in India and the second most populous city in the world (14 million), began as fishing villages on seven islands along the west coast. The name Mumbai is from the goddess Mumbadevi, and Aai, “mother”; the Portuguese and English called the city Bombay.
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Munich, the third largest city in Germany (Berlin, Hamburg), is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps.
The city's name means “by the monks' place” derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city.
Notable people associated with Munich include: Orlando di Lasso, W.A. Mozart, Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Carl Orff, Franz Marc, Thomas Mann, Adolph Hitler, Wassily Kandinsky, Lola Montez, William of Ockham, Georg Ohm, Wilhelm Roetgen, Lucia Popp, Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Vladimir Lenin, Feodor Lynen.
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In the second millennium BC Mycenae, as a military stronghold dominating much of southern Greece, was one of the major centers of Greek civilization.
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