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副标题: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World
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作者:DougSaunders
出版时间:2012-4-3
书籍简介:
A powerfully argued work that combines reporting, sociology, economics, and urban studies to show how the migration of workers from villages to urban centers has become one of the most significant forces in the world today.
For the first time in history, there are now more people in the world living in cities than in rural areas, and many of them are clustering on the urban outskirts. Arrival City argues that this incredible movement of peoples, unfolding before our eyes, will be one of the most important trends in the twenty-first century. From Istanbul to Los Angeles, from Warsaw to Shenzhen, China, Doug Saunders shows how the success or failure of the immense communities forming on the fringes of traditional cities is having a profound effect on local, national, and international development.
作者简介:
道格·桑德斯 (Doug Saunders)
1995年加入加拿大《环球邮报》(<The Globe and Mail>),现任《环球邮报》欧洲局负责人。桑德斯曾连续三年获得代表加拿大新闻界最高荣誉的国家新闻奖,并被誉为加拿大最好的专栏作家,其专栏内容为探究新闻背后的常识与全球趋势。
在对《美国大城市的死与生》作者雅各布斯(Jane Jacobs)的一次采访后,桑德斯萌生了撰写一部记录人口迁徙、尤其是农村到城市人口迁徙的著作的想法。从2007年开始,桑德斯开始了一场全球之旅,从欧洲出发,到印度次大陆、中国和北美,深入接触包括来自肯尼亚和里约热内卢的底层平民,足迹遍布五大洲数十个国家和地区,最终完成本书。桑德斯现居英国伦敦。