Book review: Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History.

In the article I Transnational Urban Meanings: The Passage of "Suburb" to India and Its Rough Reception i , "suburb" was endowed with the political meaning, which officially means the counterpoint of "slum". In the first part, a homeownership programme like Ciudad Kennedy (CK) under the Alliance for Progress in Bogotá, and the resettlement scheme after slum clearance in Manila, witnessed the urban transition of the developing countries in the 1960s. Sandoval-Strausz, AK Kwak, Nancy H (eds), Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018; 340 pp.: Dr AK Sandoval-Strausz (the University of New Mexico) and Dr Nancy H Kwak (the University of California at San Diego) have made collaborative efforts in editing a thought-provoking and insightful book titled "Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History" in 2018. [Extracted from the article]