A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.

"From a brilliant young historian, a colourful journey through 7,000 years and twenty-six world cities that shows how urban living has been the spur and incubator to humankind's greatest innovations. In the two hundred millennia of our existence, nothing has shaped us more profoundly than the city. Ben Wilson, author of bestselling and award-winning books on British history, now tells the grand, glorious story of how city living has allowed human...

Presents an examination of what the author calls "edge cities," urban areas that have developed around the perimeters of major cities, sometimes eclipsing them in size, and looks at some of the conflicts and complications caused by people living, shopping, and working, all in the same community.