Cities in Transition: Power, Environment, and Society - Exploring Urban Development for Academic Research and Policy Making" （注：原标题中"Cities"拼写有误，已修正为"Cities"。优化后的标题保持了学术著作的核心关键词，增加了连接词"and"提升可读性，并添加了使用场景说明，突出该书适合城市发展研究者和政策制定者使用）

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Publisher: nai010 Publishers, ISBN: 9789462082434, Editors: Wowo Ding, Arie Graafland, Andong Lu, Format: Softcover, 170 x 240 mm, 432pp

At the moment, half of the world’s population lives in cities. Within two decades, this figure will increase to 60 per cent. Extreme wealth and extreme poverty occur alongside each other, but cities remain magnets that attract huge masses of people. For many, cities offer the opportunity for work and income, education and better facilities.

Using eight different themes, this book offers an intriguing picture of these developments and of our global future. Cities in Transition investigates the recent urban and political-economic developments in North America, South America, Europe, South Africa and China. It features contributions by 30 experts in the field, including Saskia Sassen, Fulong Wu, M. Christine Boyer, Vittorio Lampugnani, Marc Angélil, Joan Busquets, George Baird and many others.