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Saunders makes interesting points, but he undercuts his own arguments again and again by mixing data and anecdote, scientific studies and his own sense of what's "probably true." As a series of interviews with new rural arrivals, this offers valuable perspective, but a rigorous policy map it is not.
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This was definitely an interesting book, but also a problematic one. Doug Saunders discusses a number of examples of "arrival cities"—settlements, informal or otherwise—where large populations of migrants from rural villages have moved to cities. While he does discuss 19th Century examples of this in the US and Europe, as well as immigrant arrival cities in the US and Europe, he mostly focuses on "slums" in developing countries, especially in India and Brazil, but also in Iran, Turkey, China, an
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