Making Cities Global argues that combining urban history with a transnational approach leads to a better understanding of our increasingly interconnected world.

Making Cities Global argues that combining urban history with a transnational approach leads to a better understanding of our increasingly interconnected world.

Since the 1970s, cities world-wide have been witness to radical de-industrialisation. Manufacturing was considered incompatible with urban life and was actively

Nearly 4,000 cities on our planet today have populations of 100,000 people or more. We know their names, locations, and approximate populations from maps and ot

Remarkably, more than half of the world's population now lives in cities, and the numbers grow daily as people abandon rural areas. This fully updated and revis