How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World
by Doug Saunders
- Author(s)
- Doug Saunders
- Publication, year
- London : William Heinemann ; Random House, 2010
- Scope
- 356 Pages, 24 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780434018543
Journalist Saunders offers a cautionary but essentially optimistic perspective on global urbanization. He concentrates on the slums and satellite communities that act as portals from villages to cities and, in turn, revitalize village economies. Policy makers misunderstand at their peril these "arrival cities"—London's heavily Bangladeshi Tower Hamlets, Brazil's favelas, China's Shenzhen. Citing the statistical relationship between urbanization and falling poverty rates, as well as historical precedents like Paris ("the first great arrival city of the modern world"), Saunders insists urban migration means improvement overall, and that the arrival city serves as a springboard for the integration of new populations.
- Location
- Cabinet 19 - 5: Ongeplande stad
- Remarks
- Incl. bibliographical references and Index.
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