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Arrival city

The final migration and our next world

by LINTON J
Published in August 2013 - Page 37

Doug Saunders
Vintage Canada, Toronto, 2010.
ISBN: 978-0-307-39690-7

Doug Saunders is the European bureau chief of The Globe and Mail, and a respected commentator on world affairs and social development trends. In this insightful book, he identifies a phenomenon he terms “arrival city.” These are places that we popularly know as slums, barrios, favelas, or shantytowns – where migrants from typically rural areas come to the city to eke out an often precarious

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