Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

摘要

Edward Glaeser's new book, Triumph of the City, is a tour de force. It is an impressive assembly of economics, history, business, and politics, with a reasonable amount of science, art, and biography included as well. The book's urban enthusiasm calls to mind Whitmans "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry," with its crowds and ships and foundries and so on.