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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