Welcome to the urban revolution
Subtitle: how cities are changing the world
By: Jeb Brugmann.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781596915664
Subjects: Urbanization; Cities and towns -- Growth; City planning; Urban policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Look again; title: The improbable life of an urban patch; title: The great migration; title: Anatomy of urban revolution; title: The tyrants' demise; title: What we can learn from the way that migrants build their cities; title: The final phase; title: Cities of crisis; title: Great opportunities cities; title: A planet transformed; title: The strategic city; title: Designing the ecosystem; title: Building local culture; title: Governing the entrepreneurial city; title: Co-creating the citysystem.