Cities: How Humans Live Together (Orca Timeline #3)
by Megan Clendenan (Author) Suharu Ogawa (Illustrator)
If you could design a city that would be both a great place to live and good for the planet, what would it look like?
Today, about four billion people―more than half the world’s population―live in cities. This number could rise to seven billion by 2050. Cities face big challenges, including threats from climate change, food insecurity, a lack of clean water and rapid population growth, but they are also places where innovation and sustainability can thrive.
Cities: How Humans Live Together travels through time to explore questions like When and why did cities form? How did people access food and water? Where did they go to the bathroom? Peek into the past to see how cities have changed through time and explore what could make cities more sustainable and welcoming for today and tomorrow.
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“Truly impressive…An engaging presentation of information that might otherwise be seen as technical and mundane. Recommended.” ― School Library Connection
Megan Clendenan enjoys learning about how people ate throughout history and hopes that the foods of the future will be more sustainable and just. She is the author of Cities: How Humans Live Together and the Green Earth Award winner Fresh Air, Clean Water: Our Right to a Healthy Environment. She is a co-author of Design Like Nature: Biomimicry for a Healthy Planet, part of the Orca Footprints series. Megan lives near Vancouver, British Columbia, with her family, where she likes growing vegetables in her backyard.
Meegan Lim is an illustrator and arts facilitator striving to nurture community growth and healing through visual arts. She holds a bachelor of design and illustration from OCAD University. Her work primarily focuses on the intersections of food and cultural identity, manifesting through detailed gouache illustrations, digital paintings and risograph zines. Her illustrations have been featured in Chatelaine, Eater, Broken Pencil Magazine and the book What We Talk About When We Talk About Dumplings. Meegan lives in Brampton, Ontario.
JNF031000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Lifestyles | City & Town Life
JNF037020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection
JNF005000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Architecture
JNF053070 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Social Topics | Homelessness & Poverty
Cities and towns
Urban ecology (Sociology)
City dwellers
