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Age of the City - Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together (Hardcover)
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Age of the City - Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together (Hardcover)
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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. In this
book, Professor Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin show why making our
societies fairer, more cohesive and sustainable must start with our
cities. 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.
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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