Format: Hardback

Publisher: Evans Publishing Group (2009)

Pages: 64

2007 is the year that the world's population becomes more urban than rural for the first time. This exciting series explores some of these global cities, and looks at how the challenges of urbanisation, globalisation, citizenship and sustainability are being met and answered.

Sited on the Bosporus, Istanbul straddles the border between Europe and Asia. The largest and most culturally significant city in Turkey, Istanbul is also a place of great antiquity - a city has stood on its site for over 2600 years. Signs of its past are everywhere, from Roman ruins to some of the most beautiful mosques in the world.