• Welcome to the Urban Revolution

  • How Cities Are Changing the World
  • By: Jeb Brugmann
  • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
  • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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Welcome to the Urban Revolution

By: Jeb Brugmann
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
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The revolutions that have taken place around the world during the last 50 years - the ousting of Marcos and the Shah of Iran; the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe; the end of Apartheid in South Africa; and, indeed, the civil rights revolution in America - were fundamentally urban revolutions. They were the revolutions of Manila, Teheran, Gdansk, Leipzig, Berlin, Johannesburg, and Detroit, muscular assertions of new classes of city-dwellers intent on ending their marginalization as they struggled to build their new livelihoods, freedoms, and communities in cities.

In Welcome to the Urban Revolution, Jeb Brugmann argues that the city itself had become our era's medium for revolutionary change: not only political, but technological as well. Though we think of them as a hotbed for poverty and crime, cities are not just a source of problems and conflict. They can also be a source of solutions to the major problems of our day: poverty, social inequality, and environmental sustainability. Brugmann here explains what is unique and important about cities and how they grow, the ways global issues are being solved in individual cities, and how real people are living with urban migration, day in and day out.

©2009 Jeb Brugmann (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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