Cities

A thought-provoking look at the demands and expectations we place on our growing cities in the twenty-first century. An excellent introduction to the subject for young adults.

Today, more people live in cities than in rural areas. The search for better housing, transit, economic opportunity, and security within neighborhoods forces today's city-dwellers, in both the developed world and in megacities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America - to confront what it means to live in our urban world.

In this book, cities specialist John Lorinc considers the enormous implications of the mass migration away from rural regions, and predicts that solutions will emerge from neighborhoods and dynamic networks linking communities to governments and the broader urban world.