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Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi
Instant City Life and Death in Karachi
Author: Steve Inskeep
In recent decades, the world has seen an unprecedented change in human life: for the first time in history, more people now live in cities than in the countryside. As Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep so aptly puts it, we are living in the age of the ?instant city?, where vast metropolitan areas emerge practically overnight. No rising m...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780143122166
ISBN-10: 0143122169
Publication Date: 9/25/2012
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Type: Paperback
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Engrossing book, it was a lot like listening to "Morning Edition", Inskeep manages to tell the history of Pakistan by interviewing Karachi residents. Geography is important to the story - he has maps, but about 1/2 the places he mentions in the story aren't listed, blame it on the editors, I suppose.


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