CONTENTS
The World in Motion
The Overture 9
The Return of the Nomads 13
Nomads: Old & New
Nomad Lifestyles
Expats & Attachment
Researchers & Scholars
Senses of the Self
Citizenship: Bought & Sold
Nomad Hubs & Hotspots
The Great Migration 45
Escape & Sanctuary
Diasporas & Destinations
The Pure & the Impure
The Search & the Experience 61
Tourists & Travellers
Seeking Sex & Pleasure
Beauty & Health
Parasites & Urban Life 77
Organisms & Pathogens
Corrosive Criminality
Population Matters 87
Cities & the Anthropocene Age
Cities & the Culture Mix 93
Ideas & Ideologies
Language & Diffusion
Invading Space & Place 103
The Brand & the Bland
The Frenzied Flow 115
Escalating Pace & Finance
The Logistics of Things
The Virtual & the Real
More moves & faster & faster
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The City in Motion
The Past & the Future 135
Histories & Heritage
Timeless Themes
The Present & the Dream 147
The Power of Concepts
Citizen & Nomad Planning
Place & Space Trajectory 155
The City 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 &………
The Digitizing City: Influence & Impact
The Return of the City 167
Transition & Change
The Nomadic Meme & Creativity
The Sensory Landscape of Cities 183
The City as a Communications Device
The Decline of Distinctiveness
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Gazi, Athens
Zones of Encounter
Meeting & Mixing 201
Connections: Shallow & Deep
Parallel Lives
The Civil & the Civic 213
The Trajectories of Empowerment
The City as a Civilization
Civic Creativity: The Next Step
Psychology & the City 233
Cities & the Archaic Mind
Place Purpose & Well-being
Signals of the Civic 243
Reconstructing the Civic
The Relevance of Resistance 255
There can be another City
Places of Empathy
Patterns of Progress 263
Xenopolis or Cosmopolis
Urbanity: Its Past & Futures
Ten Themes of Urbanity
The Creative Bureaucracy
What if…… 279
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