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A third of the world's people are in the midst of the largest population move in human history, as the last of the word's rural populations abandons agriculture and moves to the urban areas of the developing world and of the wealthy West. Both a groundbreaking work of reportage and an exciting, vivid travelogue, Arrival City sees award-winning journalist Doug Saunders offering a detailed tour of the key points in the Great Migration, and considers the actions that have turned this enormous population shift into either a success or a violent failure.

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@lt;p@gt;@lt;i@gt;Praise from the UK and Canada: @lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;i@gt; @lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;i@gt;Arrival City@lt;/i@gt; brilliantly captures the breakneck pace of this 'great migration, ' as the peasants of the poor world relocate to their own megacities--and ours. And it brings profoundly good news from the mean streets . . . Bottom of Form@lt;br@gt;Doug Saunders, a Canadian journalist skilled in both colourful reportage and sustaining a good argument, provides a badly needed progressive and optimistic narrative about our future. This is the perfect antidote to the doom-laden determinism of the last popular book on urbanisation, Mike Davis's @lt;i@gt;Planet of Slums@lt;/i@gt; . . . This may be the best popular book on cities since Jane Jacobs's @lt;i@gt;The Death and Life of Great American Cities@lt;/i@gt; half a century ago. Certainly, it shares the same optimism about human aspiration amid overcrowded buildings and unplanned urban jungles, and the same plea for planners

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<p>Doug Saunders is an award-winning journalist and the European bureau chief of The Globe and Mail. He lives in London.

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