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Age of the City
Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together
Taschenbuch von Ian Goldin (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
'A fresh, clear-eyed and timely analysis'
Peter Frankopan

'A sharp and lively urbanist manifesto'Times Literary SupplementVisionary 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.

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 - so it is within cities that the fight to make our societies fairer, more cohesive and sustainable must start. 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.
'A fresh, clear-eyed and timely analysis'
Peter Frankopan

'A sharp and lively urbanist manifesto'Times Literary SupplementVisionary 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.

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 - so it is within cities that the fight to make our societies fairer, more cohesive and sustainable must start. 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.
Über den Autor
Ian Goldin is Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford. He was Vice President of the World Bank and prior to that the Bank's Director of Development Policy. From 1996 to 2001 he was Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, and also served as an advisor to President Nelson Mandela. He has been knighted by the French government and is an acclaimed author of 20 books, including Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World, Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years, and Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of our Second Renaissance.
Zusammenfassung
Contemporary relevance - as remote working becomes the norm this is a defence of the city - which like it or not for most of the world's population will be the future of life on earth. It will be the first book to focus on cities as the essential solution to our global woes.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Engines of Progress
3 Levelling Up
4 Divided Cities
5 Remote Work: The Threat to Cities
6 Cities, Cyberspace, and the Future of Community
7 Beyond the Rich World
8 The Spectre of Disease
9 A Climate of Peril
10 Conclusion: Better Together
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Fachbereich: Geografie
Genre: Geowissenschaften, Importe
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781399406154
ISBN-10: 1399406159
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 663327
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Goldin, Ian
Lee-Devlin, Tom
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Bloomsbury Continuum
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 197 x 128 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Ian Goldin (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2025
Gewicht: 0,216 kg
Artikel-ID: 127760182
Über den Autor
Ian Goldin is Director of the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford. He was Vice President of the World Bank and prior to that the Bank's Director of Development Policy. From 1996 to 2001 he was Chief Executive and Managing Director of the Development Bank of Southern Africa, and also served as an advisor to President Nelson Mandela. He has been knighted by the French government and is an acclaimed author of 20 books, including Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World, Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years, and Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of our Second Renaissance.
Zusammenfassung
Contemporary relevance - as remote working becomes the norm this is a defence of the city - which like it or not for most of the world's population will be the future of life on earth. It will be the first book to focus on cities as the essential solution to our global woes.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Engines of Progress
3 Levelling Up
4 Divided Cities
5 Remote Work: The Threat to Cities
6 Cities, Cyberspace, and the Future of Community
7 Beyond the Rich World
8 The Spectre of Disease
9 A Climate of Peril
10 Conclusion: Better Together
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Fachbereich: Geografie
Genre: Geowissenschaften, Importe
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781399406154
ISBN-10: 1399406159
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 663327
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Goldin, Ian
Lee-Devlin, Tom
Hersteller: Bloomsbury UK
Bloomsbury Continuum
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 197 x 128 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Ian Goldin (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2025
Gewicht: 0,216 kg
Artikel-ID: 127760182
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