By 2007, the world will pass from being a mainly rural to a mainly urban population. Large cities, including mega cities with more than 10 million people, present key challenges relating to sustainable development and citizenship. Each title in this new geography series reveals reasons for the city's location and the structure of the population, and explores environmental issues such as transport, waste, pollution and wildlife, city economy, culture, leisure and tourism and look to the future.

Author Biography

Simon Garner has lived and worked in Berlin for the last two years as a teacher and translator. He was also a frequent visitor to the city in the late 1980s before the fall of the wall and has a long term interest in German post-war history