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AGE OF THE CITY - IAN GOLDIN TOM LEE-DEVLIN KAR...

'A fresh  clear-eyed and timely analysis'  Peter Frankopan   'A sharp and lively urbanist
manifesto'   Times Literary Supplement    Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The
Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality  social
division  pandemics and climate change must be faced.   From centres of antiquity like Athens
or Rome to modern metropolises like New York or Shanghai  cities throughout history have been
the engines of human progress and the epicentres of our greatest achievements. Now  for the
first time  more than half of humanity lives in cities  a share that continues to rise. In the
developing world  cities are growing at a rate never seen before.  Globalization and
technological change have concentrated wealth into a small number of booming metropolises 
leaving many smaller cities and towns behind and feeding populist resentment - so it is within
cities that the fight to make our societies fairer  more cohesive and sustainable must start.
Yet even within seemingly thriving cities like London or San Francisco  the gap between the
haves and have-nots continues to widen and our retreat into online worlds tears away at our
social fabric. Meanwhile  pandemics and climate change pose existential threats to our
increasingly urban world.  Professor Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin combine the lessons of history
with a deep understanding of the challenges confronting our world today to show why cities are
at a crossroads - and hold our destinies in the balance.

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