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"Benjamin Barber shows us how cities are traversed by networks of all sorts and how inter-city networks traverse the world. Both extremes and all that happens in between are brought to life through empirical details and exciting narratives."--Saskia Sassen, Columbia University and author of Cities in a World Economy
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