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If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Benjamin R. Barber
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Paperback. Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy's best hope? Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSG; JPHL; JPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 147 x 35. Weight in Grams: 492.
Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy’s best hope?
In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job. Barber cites the ... Read more
Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy’s best hope?
In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and the mayors who run them can do and are doing a better job. Barber cites the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
472
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300209327
SKU
V9780300209327
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About Benjamin R. Barber
Benjamin R. Barber is senior research scholar at the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. He is also president and founder of the Interdependence Movement and the author of seventeen books, including Jihad vs. McWorld and Strong Democracy. Barber’s project for a Global Parliament of Mayors has attracted scores of urban ... Read more
Reviews for If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
"Audacious, . . . ambitious . . . Barber’s book should be required reading for New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio."—Sam Roberts, New York Times Book Review "If you like cities you will love this wide-ranging book that captures the energy, excitement and importance of what is going on in the world's great urban centers."—Fareed Zakaria, CNN ". ... Read more