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Triumph of the city : how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier, Edward L. Glaeser

Creator
Summary
A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Contents
  • Our urban species -- What do they make in Bangalore? -- Why do cities decline? -- What's good about slums? -- How were the tenements tamed? -- Is London a luxury resort? -- What's so great about skyscrapers? -- Why has sprawl spread? -- Is there anything greener than blacktop? -- How do cities succeed? -- Flat world, tall city
  • Our urban species -- What do they make in Bangalore?. Ports of intellectual entry: Athens ; Baghdad's house of wisdom ; Learning in Nagasaki ; How Bangalore became a boom town ; Education and urban success ; The rise of Silicon Valley ; The cities of tomorrow -- Why do cities decline?. How the rust belt rose ; Detroit before cars ; Henry Ford and industrial Detroit ; Why riot? ; Urban reinvention : New York since 1970 ; The righteous rage of Coleman Young ; The Curley effect ; The edifice complex ; Remaining in the rust belt ; Shrinking to greatness -- What's good about slums?. Rio's favelas ; Moving on up ; Richard Wright's urban exodus ; Rise and fall of the American ghetto ; The inner city ; How policy magnifies poverty -- How were the tenements tamed?. The plight of Kinshasa ; Healing sick cities ; Street cleaning and corruption ; More roads, less traffic? ; Making cities safer ; Health benefits -- Is London a luxury resort?. Scale economies and the Globe Theatre ; The division of labor and lamb vindaloo ; Shoes and the city ; London as marriage market ; When are high wages bad? -- What's so great about skyscrapers?. Inventing the skyscraper ; The soaring ambition of A.E. Lefcourt ; Regulating New York ; Fear of heights ; The perils of preservation ; Rethinking Paris ; Mismanagement in Mumbai ; Three simple rules -- Why has sprawl spread?. Sprawl before cars ; William Levitt and mass-produced housing ; Rebuilding America around the car ; Welcome to The Woodlands ; Accounting for tastes : why a million people moved to Houston ; Why is housing so cheap in the Sunbelt? ; What's wrong with sprawl? -- Is there anything greener than blacktop?. The dream of garden living ; Dirty footprints : comparing carbon emissions ; The unintended consequences of environmentalism ; Two green visions : the prince and the mayor ; The biggest battle : greening India and China ; Seeking smarter environmentalism -- How do cities succeed?. The imperial city: Tokyo ; The well-managed city: Singapore and Gaborone ; The smart city: Boston, Minneapolis, and Milan ; The consumer city: Vancouver ; The growing city: Chicago and Atlanta ; Too much of a good thing in Dubai -- Flat world, tall city. Give cities a level playing field ; Urbanization through globalization ; Lend a hand to human capital ; Help poor people, not poor places ; The challenge of urban poverty ; The rise of the consumer city ; The curse of NIMBYism ; The bias toward sprawl ; Green cities ; Gifts of the city
Isbn
9780143120544
Instance
Label
Triumph of the city : how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier
Title
Triumph of the city
Title remainder
how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier
Statement of responsibility
Edward L. Glaeser
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future
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1967-
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Glaeser, Edward L.
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • plates
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
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  • Urbanization
  • Cities and towns
  • Urban economics
  • Sociology, Urban
  • Urbanization
  • Urbanisation
  • Villes
  • Économie urbaine
  • Sociologie urbaine
  • urbanization
  • suburban growth
  • urban sprawl
  • urban sociology
  • Urbanisation
  • Villes
  • Economie urbaine
  • Sociologie urbaine
  • Cities and towns
  • Sociology, Urban
  • Urban economics
  • Urbanization
  • Stadtentwicklung
  • Stadtsoziologie
  • Stadtökonomie
  • Verstädterung
  • Wachstum
  • Stedelijke economie
  • Forensisme
  • Stadscultuur
  • Urbanization
  • Cities and towns
  • Urban economics
  • Sociology, Urban
  • Städer
  • Urbanisering
  • Stadssociologi
  • Urbanization
  • Cities and towns
  • Cities and towns
  • Urban sociology
Label
Triumph of the city : how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier, Edward L. Glaeser
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-323) and index
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volume
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
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Contents
  • Our urban species -- What do they make in Bangalore? -- Why do cities decline? -- What's good about slums? -- How were the tenements tamed? -- Is London a luxury resort? -- What's so great about skyscrapers? -- Why has sprawl spread? -- Is there anything greener than blacktop? -- How do cities succeed? -- Flat world, tall city
  • Our urban species -- What do they make in Bangalore?. Ports of intellectual entry: Athens ; Baghdad's house of wisdom ; Learning in Nagasaki ; How Bangalore became a boom town ; Education and urban success ; The rise of Silicon Valley ; The cities of tomorrow -- Why do cities decline?. How the rust belt rose ; Detroit before cars ; Henry Ford and industrial Detroit ; Why riot? ; Urban reinvention : New York since 1970 ; The righteous rage of Coleman Young ; The Curley effect ; The edifice complex ; Remaining in the rust belt ; Shrinking to greatness -- What's good about slums?. Rio's favelas ; Moving on up ; Richard Wright's urban exodus ; Rise and fall of the American ghetto ; The inner city ; How policy magnifies poverty -- How were the tenements tamed?. The plight of Kinshasa ; Healing sick cities ; Street cleaning and corruption ; More roads, less traffic? ; Making cities safer ; Health benefits -- Is London a luxury resort?. Scale economies and the Globe Theatre ; The division of labor and lamb vindaloo ; Shoes and the city ; London as marriage market ; When are high wages bad? -- What's so great about skyscrapers?. Inventing the skyscraper ; The soaring ambition of A.E. Lefcourt ; Regulating New York ; Fear of heights ; The perils of preservation ; Rethinking Paris ; Mismanagement in Mumbai ; Three simple rules -- Why has sprawl spread?. Sprawl before cars ; William Levitt and mass-produced housing ; Rebuilding America around the car ; Welcome to The Woodlands ; Accounting for tastes : why a million people moved to Houston ; Why is housing so cheap in the Sunbelt? ; What's wrong with sprawl? -- Is there anything greener than blacktop?. The dream of garden living ; Dirty footprints : comparing carbon emissions ; The unintended consequences of environmentalism ; Two green visions : the prince and the mayor ; The biggest battle : greening India and China ; Seeking smarter environmentalism -- How do cities succeed?. The imperial city: Tokyo ; The well-managed city: Singapore and Gaborone ; The smart city: Boston, Minneapolis, and Milan ; The consumer city: Vancouver ; The growing city: Chicago and Atlanta ; Too much of a good thing in Dubai -- Flat world, tall city. Give cities a level playing field ; Urbanization through globalization ; Lend a hand to human capital ; Help poor people, not poor places ; The challenge of urban poverty ; The rise of the consumer city ; The curse of NIMBYism ; The bias toward sprawl ; Green cities ; Gifts of the city
Control code
650211168
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780143120544
Lccn
2010034609
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
Other control number
99941531443
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)650211168
Label
Triumph of the city : how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier, Edward L. Glaeser
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-323) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Our urban species -- What do they make in Bangalore? -- Why do cities decline? -- What's good about slums? -- How were the tenements tamed? -- Is London a luxury resort? -- What's so great about skyscrapers? -- Why has sprawl spread? -- Is there anything greener than blacktop? -- How do cities succeed? -- Flat world, tall city
  • Our urban species -- What do they make in Bangalore?. Ports of intellectual entry: Athens ; Baghdad's house of wisdom ; Learning in Nagasaki ; How Bangalore became a boom town ; Education and urban success ; The rise of Silicon Valley ; The cities of tomorrow -- Why do cities decline?. How the rust belt rose ; Detroit before cars ; Henry Ford and industrial Detroit ; Why riot? ; Urban reinvention : New York since 1970 ; The righteous rage of Coleman Young ; The Curley effect ; The edifice complex ; Remaining in the rust belt ; Shrinking to greatness -- What's good about slums?. Rio's favelas ; Moving on up ; Richard Wright's urban exodus ; Rise and fall of the American ghetto ; The inner city ; How policy magnifies poverty -- How were the tenements tamed?. The plight of Kinshasa ; Healing sick cities ; Street cleaning and corruption ; More roads, less traffic? ; Making cities safer ; Health benefits -- Is London a luxury resort?. Scale economies and the Globe Theatre ; The division of labor and lamb vindaloo ; Shoes and the city ; London as marriage market ; When are high wages bad? -- What's so great about skyscrapers?. Inventing the skyscraper ; The soaring ambition of A.E. Lefcourt ; Regulating New York ; Fear of heights ; The perils of preservation ; Rethinking Paris ; Mismanagement in Mumbai ; Three simple rules -- Why has sprawl spread?. Sprawl before cars ; William Levitt and mass-produced housing ; Rebuilding America around the car ; Welcome to The Woodlands ; Accounting for tastes : why a million people moved to Houston ; Why is housing so cheap in the Sunbelt? ; What's wrong with sprawl? -- Is there anything greener than blacktop?. The dream of garden living ; Dirty footprints : comparing carbon emissions ; The unintended consequences of environmentalism ; Two green visions : the prince and the mayor ; The biggest battle : greening India and China ; Seeking smarter environmentalism -- How do cities succeed?. The imperial city: Tokyo ; The well-managed city: Singapore and Gaborone ; The smart city: Boston, Minneapolis, and Milan ; The consumer city: Vancouver ; The growing city: Chicago and Atlanta ; Too much of a good thing in Dubai -- Flat world, tall city. Give cities a level playing field ; Urbanization through globalization ; Lend a hand to human capital ; Help poor people, not poor places ; The challenge of urban poverty ; The rise of the consumer city ; The curse of NIMBYism ; The bias toward sprawl ; Green cities ; Gifts of the city
Control code
650211168
Dimensions
25 cm
Extent
338 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780143120544
Lccn
2010034609
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Note
WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 650
Other control number
99941531443
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)650211168

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