Triumph of the City

How Urban Spaces Make Us Human

Edward Glaeser

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PAN MACMILLAN
01 May 2012

Urban communities; Economics & Business; Urban economics

A compellingly readable, critically acclaimed, agenda-setting account of how and why cities function as they do and why so many of us choose to live in them Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life's work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world's most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can't my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new financial capital of the world? Is my job headed to Bangalore? In Triumph of the City, Glaeser takes us around the world and into the mind of the modern city - from Mumbai to Paris to Rio to Detroit to Shanghai, and to any number of points in between - to reveal how cities think, why they behave in the manners that they do, and what wisdom they share with the people who inhabit them.

By: Edward Glaeser
Imprint: PAN MACMILLAN
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 247g
ISBN: 9780330458078
ISBN 10: 0330458078
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 01 May 2012
Recommended Age: 16
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard. He is widely regarded as one of the most innovative thinkers around and when not teaching has spent his professional life walking around and thinking about cities.