Fifteen year old Hanna goes off to private school, and drifts apart from Helen, who had been Hanna’s companion for most of her young life. Helen, referred to affectionately by Hanna as Gran, longs for the days when she and Hanna were close, while Hanna’s parents’ marriage was in trouble.

“We are organizing the planet itself into a City: into a single, complex, connected, and still very unstable urban system”, writes urban strategy consultant Jeb Brugmann in his groundbreaking and visionary book Welcome To The Urban Revolution: How Cities Are Changing The World. The author considers the philosophical and practical issues surrounding the explosive growth [...]