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

摘要

"Why do the richest and poorest people in the world so often live cheek by jowl? How do once-mighty cities fall into disrepair? Why do some people and societies stage dramatic comebacks?" (p. 2). Edward Glaeser's latest book, Triumph of the City, leads the intellectually curious on a tour of select cities through time and around the world to answer such questions pertinent to urbanites. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, here marries his passion for the urban world with a tool kit comprised of economic theory, statistical methods, and data.