Arrival City How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World

Name: Arrival City How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
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ISBN: 9780307388568

ISBN-10: 0307388565

ISBN-13: 9780307388568

Edition: 2012

Authors: Doug Saunders

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Look around: the largest migration in human history is under way. For the first time ever, more people are living in cities than in rural areas. Between 2007 and 2050, the world’s cities will have absorbed 3.1 billion people. Urbanization is the mass movement that will change our world during the twenty-first century, and the “arrival city” is where it is taking place. The arrival city exists on the outskirts of the metropolis, in the slums, or in the suburbs; the American version is New York’s Lower East Side of a century ago or today’s Herndon County, Virginia. These are the places where newcomers try to establish new lives and to integrate themselves socially and economically. Their goal…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.33" wide x 7.98" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Map: Arrival Cities And their Villages


Preface: The Place Where Everything Changes



On the Edge of the City


Liu Gong Li, China


Tower Hamlets, London, U.K.



Outside In: The Lives of the New City


Kolhewadi, Ratnagiri, India


Kamrangirchar, Dhaka, Bangladesh


Shenzhen, China


Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya


Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil



Arriving at the Top of the Pyramid


Los Angeles, California


Herndon, Virginia, and Wheaton, Maryland



The Urbanization of the Vaillage


Tatary, Poland


Shuilin, Sichuan, China


Dorli, Maharashtra, India


Biswanath, Sylhet, Bangladesh



The First Great Migration: How The West Arrived


Paris"


London


Toronto and Chicago



TheDeath and Life of a Great Arrival City


Istanbul



When the Margins Explode


Emamzadeh 'Isa, Tehran


Petare, Caracas


Mulund, Mumbai



The New City Confronts the Old World


Les Pyramides, Evry, France


Kreuzberg, Berlin


Parla, Spain



Arrival's End:Mud Floor to Middle Class


Jardim Angela, Sao Paulo, Brazil


Mumbai



Arriving In Style


Slotervaart, Amsterdam


Karail, Dhaka, Bangladesh


Thomcliffe Park, Toronto


Afterword: The Arrival City Revolutions


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index