Triumph of the City How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
by Glaeser, EdwardEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2012-01-31
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Summary
A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities. America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live. He travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and cogent argument, Glaeser makes an urgent, eloquent case for the city's importance and splendor, offering inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest creation and our best hope for the future.
Author Biography
Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He studies the economics of cities, housing, segregation, obesity, crime, innovation and other subjects, and writes about many of these issues for Economix. He serves as the director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Our Urban Species | p. 1 |
| What Do They Make in Bangalore? | p. 17 |
| Ports of Intellectual Entry: Athens | p. 19 |
| Baghdad's House of Wisdom | p. 21 |
| Learning in Nagasaki | p. 23 |
| How Bangalore Became a Boom Town | p. 24 |
| Education and Urban Success | p. 27 |
| The Rise of Silicon Valley | p. 29 |
| The Cities of Tomorrow | p. 34 |
| Why Do Cities Decline? | p. 41 |
| How the Rust Belt Rose | p. 43 |
| Detroit Before Cars | p. 46 |
| Henry Ford and Industrial Detroit | p. 49 |
| Why Riot? | p. 52 |
| Urban Reinvention: New York Since 1970 | p. 56 |
| The Righteous Rage of Coleman Young | p. 58 |
| The Curley Effect | p. 60 |
| The Edifice Complex | p. 61 |
| Remaining in the Rust Belt | p. 63 |
| Shrinking to Greatness | p. 64 |
| What's Good About Slums? | p. 69 |
| Rio's Favelas | p. 72 |
| Moving On Up | p. 76 |
| Richard Wright's Urban Exodus | p. 79 |
| Rise and Fall of the American Ghetto | p. 81 |
| The Inner City | p. 85 |
| How Policy Magnifies Poverty | p. 86 |
| How Were the Tenements Tamed? | p. 93 |
| The Plight of Kinshasa | p. 95 |
| Healing Sick Cities | p. 97 |
| Street Cleaning and Corruption | p. 101 |
| More Roads, Less Traffic? | p. 104 |
| Making Cities Safer | p. 106 |
| Health Benefits | p. 114 |
| Is London a Luxury Resort? | p. 117 |
| Scale Economies and the Globe Theatre | p. 119 |
| The Division of Labor and Lamb Vindaloo | p. 122 |
| Shoes and the City | p. 126 |
| London as Marriage Market | p. 127 |
| When Are High Wages Bad? | p. 129 |
| What's So Great About Skyscrapers? | p. 135 |
| Inventing the Skyscraper | p. 136 |
| The Soaring Ambition of A. E. Lefcourt | p. 140 |
| Regulating New York | p. 142 |
| Fear of Heights | p. 144 |
| The Perils of Preservation | p. 148 |
| Rethinking Paris | p. 152 |
| Mismanagement in Mumbai | p. 157 |
| Three Simple Rules | p. 161 |
| Why Has Sprawl Spread? | p. 165 |
| Sprawl Before Cars | p. 167 |
| William Levitt and Mass-Produced Housing | p. 174 |
| Rebuilding America Around the Car | p. 177 |
| Welcome to The Woodlands | p. 180 |
| Accounting for Tastes: Why a Million People Moved to Houston | p. 183 |
| Why Is Housing So Cheap in the Sunbelt? | p. 188 |
| What's Wrong with Sprawl? | p. 193 |
| Is There Anything Greener Than Blacktop? | p. 199 |
| The Dream of Garden Living | p. 202 |
| Dirty Footprints: Comparing Carbon Emissions | p. 206 |
| The Unintended Consequences of Environmentalism | p. 210 |
| Two Green Visions: The Prince and the Mayor | p. 213 |
| The Biggest Battle: Greening India and China | p. 217 |
| Seeking Smarter Environmentalism | p. 220 |
| How Do Cities Succeed? | p. 223 |
| The Imperial City: Tokyo | p. 224 |
| The Well-Managed City: Singapore and Gaborone | p. 227 |
| The Smart City: Boston, Minneapolis, and Milan | p. 231 |
| The Consumer City: Vancouver | p. 238 |
| The Growing City: Chicago and Atlanta | p. 241 |
| Too Much of a Good Thing in Dubai | p. 244 |
| CONCLUSION: Flat World, Tall City | p. 247 |
| Give Cities a Level Playing Field | p. 249 |
| Urbanization Through Globalization | p. 251 |
| Lend a Hand to Human Capital | p. 253 |
| Help Poor People, Not Poor Places | p. 255 |
| The Challenge of Urban Poverty | p. 257 |
| The Rise of the Consumer City | p. 259 |
| The Curse of NIMBYism | p. 260 |
| The Bias Toward Sprawl | p. 264 |
| Green Cities | p. 276 |
| Gifts of the City | p. 268 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 271 |
| Notes | p. 275 |
| Bibliography | p. 307 |
| Index | p. 325 |
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