Triumph of the city : how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier /
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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New York :
Penguin,
2011.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Glaeser, Edward L. |q (Edward Ludwig), |d 1967- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Triumph of the city : |b how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier / |c Edward L. Glaeser. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Penguin, |c 2011. | ||
| 300 | |a 338 p., [8] p. of plates : |b ill. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-323) and index. | ||
| 505 | 2 | |a 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. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 -- | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Why has sprawl spread?: Sprawl before cars ; Arthur 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. | |
| 520 | |a A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Urbanization. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cities and towns |x Growth. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Urban economics. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sociology, Urban. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Urbanización. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Ciudades y pueblos |x Crecimiento. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Economía urbana. |2 UDESA | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Sociología urbana. |2 UDESA | |