Age of the City: Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together

Goldin, Ian; Lee-Devlin, Tom

ISBN 10: 1399406159 / ISBN 13: 9781399406154

Edité par Bloomsbury Continuum, London, 2024

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1st paperback printing, xvii + 237 pages, figures, notes, bibliography, index.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Age of the City: Why our Future will be Won or Lost Together
• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Continuum, London
• Date de parution: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1399406159
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781399406154
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Thus
• État de l'article: Fine

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Synopsis

One of the Financial Times' Best Economics Books of 2023

Visionary 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.

In this book, Professor Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin show why making our societies fairer, more cohesive and sustainable must start with our cities. 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. 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.

À propos des auteurs

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.

Tom Lee-Devlin is a writer at The Economist and co-host of the Money Talks podcast. He previously worked as a management consultant at Bain & Company and led research for the firm's global think tank, Bain Futures.