<strong>Cities</strong> have always been the incubators of new ideas economic innovation andsocial reform. But recent demands and expectations placed on cities ... » 

Cities have always been the incubators of new ideas economic innovation andsocial reform. But recent demands and expectations placed on cities and theircitizens are unprecedented everything from chronic poverty and homelessness tomassive energy consumption and nonstop suburban sprawl. In this timely bookcities specialist John Lorinc considers the enormous implications of theworldwide mass migration away from rural regions. He shows how solutions canemerge from neighborhoods and dynamic networks linking communities togovernments and the broader urban world. Beyond the search for better housingtransit economic opportunity and security within neighborhoods todays citydwellers confront a fundamental question about what it means to live in oururban world. How do people from vastly different cultures and economiccircumstances learn to accommodate one anothers needs within the confines ofvery dense and complex megacities? This book offers a wellreasoned creativeanswer to that question. «