"In the coming decades, the bulk of Africa's anticipated urban population growth will take place in smaller cities. Failure to manage environmental and public health problems in one such aspiring city, Edendale, has fostered severe pollution, seemingly intractable poverty, and gender...

Introduction: Challenges facing micro-countries -- Introducing the 41 micro-countries -- From developing to dismembering global empires (late 1400s-late 1900s) -- Sovereignty, skepticism, and survival -- Economic disadvantages -- Environment disasters -- Ethnic, class, and other 'identity'...