In the vein of Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser’s Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose—a visionary in urban development and renewal—champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century“This provocative, important, and majestically composed book about the future of cities should be essential reading for our times…. By the time I had finished Rose’s book, I began to see the city and the world around me in an entirely new light. I could not put this book down.”—Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, The Gene