The City and The City and The City. Bad pun, I know (great book though) One does not have to be an expert on Saskia Sassen to know that the city is at the heart of social change in the age of globalization, from global cities to planet of slums, a great deal of research has focused on how cities promote, or adapt to, social change and how cities are hubs of global social dynamics of class, inequalities, gender and ecology.
For instance, take this first item on the rise of “slow cities”: “La municipalité est la première de France à adhérer à Cittaslow, le réseau international des “villes lentes”. By Century’s End We Will be an Entirely Urban Species. My cover story for The Spectator. This is an introduction to one of the arguments in my new book Arrival City. Doug Saunders has visited 30 villages and cities on five continents to explore the great irreversible migration: from the countryside to vast megacities. This is the single most important change mankind faces. Doug Saunders (DougSaunders)