"The great march of humanity
Rural-to-urban migration is reshaping our world, often for the better
By Richard Warnica, Edmonton Journal September 26, 2010
Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World
Doug Saunders, Alfred A. Knopf
Canada, 356 pp; $34.95
On a winter night in 1977, a group of villagers from rural Turkey gathered on the far outskirts of Istanbul. In the darkness, far from the famous towers of the central city, they cleared a patch of unused land. Over the next few nights, brick houses appeared, organized into the neat rows of a new neighbourhood."
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