Twentieth-Century Urbanization: In Search of an Urban Paradigm for an Urban World - Paperback

by Howard Spodek (Author)

World population shifted dramatically throughout the twentieth century; by the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than half of the world's population lived in cities, a first in recorded human history.

Author Biography

Howard Spodek is the author of The World's History (2010), co-editor (with Doris Srinivasan) of Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia (1993), and producer and writer of the documentary film Ahmedabad: The Life of a City in India (1983).