ICLEI founder, leading practitioner and thinker on strategy and the process of innovation and now author, Jeb Brugmann has published a new book. Welcome to the Urban Revolution offers an eye-opening anatomy of our urbanising planet.

Taking readers on a street-level tour of the world’s cities, Brugmann challenges conventional thinking about globalisation and reveals cities as the medium for revolutionary change. From Tehran to Gdansk to Caracas, he traces the roots of political revolutions to local patterns of urban growth; from Guangzhou to Mumbai to Miami, he shows how global health, financial, and environmental crises now arise from local approaches to urban development; and from Bangalore to Helsinki to Toronto, he shows how cities incubate new industries and environmental solutions.

The book argues that the 21st century’s greatest challenges can—and must—be met through improved approaches to city building. Brugmann reveals that the most progressive cities have developed their own “practices of urbanism,” from the sidewalk up. "These local urbanisms—ways of designing, governing, and living in cities that align competing interests behind common purposes—are what we need globally to guide an ever more urban civilisation".

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