Can Cities Survive The Final Great Migration?

Doug Saunders, journalist and author of Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World, discusses how cities can prepare for the next wave of immigrants. 

For centuries, people have left rural areas to establish new lives in cities, struggling to realize their dreams of a better life. These “arrival cities”—from Paris in the eighteenth century to Tehran in the twentieth to Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro today—have struggled with how to handle their new residents. As cities around the world await the next great wave of immigration, which will bring an unprecedented number of people into urban life, how should they prepare for the social, political, and economic changes migrants are bound to bring?

Author and journalist Doug Saunders explores how migrants will transform the cities and how cities can survive and thrive with the influx. Presented as part of Zócalo at the Skirball, the popular L.A. cultural forum, which presents a series of thinkers and doers speaking on some of the most pressing topics of the day.

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