A collection of 10 pocket size books, each featuring a conversation with a leading expert from the global South.

Each book focuses on reframing how we imagine and remake components of a global urban system in desperate need of reform. Experts share the insights they have gained in the course of years of successful, grounded practice.

The experts include:

• Raquel Rolnik on urban inequality,
• Tolullah Oni on public health,
• Edgar Pieterse on Africa’s pattern-breaking urbanisation,
• Robert Muggah on the complexity of urban violence,
• Rahul Mehrotra on the exciting potential and limits of architecture,
• Vyjayanthi Rao on land the role land ownership plays in perpetuating inequality,
• Tatiana Thieme on hustle economies
• Idris Jala on public sector reform.