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.

Sydney is one of the largest cities in the southern hemisphere, and one of the most influential in the Pacific Rim area. It enjoys one of the highest standards of living of any major city in the world, and has a cosmopolitan culture based on a population with a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds.