NEW URBAN WORLDS

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia an d Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implicat ions of this challenge cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in p rofound societal and cultural shifts.In this highly original account, renowned urban sociologists AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieter se offer...[Read more]