Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
by Edward L. Glaeser · 1 Jan 2011 · 598pp · 140,612 words
cities/SUB-EST2009.html. 42 Skilled cities have been more successful: Glaeser and Saiz, “Skilled City
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City of Detroit, generated using American FactFinder; and Glaeser and Gyourko, “Urban Decline and
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and Music Drive New York City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. Cutler, David M., and Edward L. Glaeser. “Are Ghettos Good or Bad?” Quarterly Journal of Economics 112, no. 3 (Aug. 1997): 827-72. Cutler, David M., Edward L. Glaeser, and
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and Grant Miller. “Water, Water Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities.” In Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America’s Economic History, Edward L. Glaeser and
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and History 8, no. 4 (2002): 475-88. Gaspar, Jess, and Edward L. Glaeser. “Information Technology and the Future of Cities
The Survival of the City: Human Flourishing in an Age of Isolation
by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler · 14 Sep 2021 · 735pp · 165,375 words
Your Money or Your Life Also by Edward Glaeser Triumph of the City Cities, Agglomeration and Spatial Equilibrium Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe (with Alberto Alesina) Rethinking Federal Housing Policy (with Joseph Gyourko) PENGUIN PRESS An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC penguinrandomhouse.com Copyright © 2021 by Edward Glaeser and David Cutler Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels
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: Glaeser, Edward L. (Edward Ludwig), 1967– author. | Cutler, David M., author. Title: Survival of the city : living and thriving in an age of isolation / Edward Glaeser and David Cutler. Description: First edition | New York : Penguin Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021008290 (print) | LCCN 2021008291 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593297681 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593297698 (ebook)
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Common Core State Standards for Mathematics,” 1. South Korea and the Netherlands: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, PISA 2012 Results in Focus: What 15-Year-Olds Know and What They Can Do with What They Know. In Massachusetts, which had: “Ed Glaeser Slips on a Banana Peel,” Pioneer Institute. “for Massachusetts”: “Common
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pushing”: “Ed Glaeser Slips on a Banana Peel.” “progressive educators”: Murphy, “Common Core in Oklahoma.” Conform: Exposing the Truth: Beck
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Greek Civilization in Southern Italy.” Journal of Aesthetic Education 19, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 23–37. https://doi.org/10.2307/3332556. Austin, Benjamin A., Edward L. Glaeser, and Lawrence H. Summers. “Jobs for the Heartland: Place-Based Policies in 21st Century America.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Spring 2018): 151–232. https://doi
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articles/americans-are-drinking-less-alcohol-11547733600. Chauvin, J. P., Edward Glaeser, and Stephanie Kestelman. “Regulation and Mobility in Brazil.” Working Paper, 2021. Chauvin, Juan Pablo, Edward Glaeser, Yueran Ma, and Kristina Tobio. “What Is Different about Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States.” Journal of Urban Economics 98 (2017): 17–49
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Study: The Boston Waterfront Innovation District.” Smart Cities Dive, 2017. www.smartcitiesdive.com/ex/sustainablecitiescollective/case-study-boston-waterfront-innovation-district/27649. “Ed Glaeser Slips on a Banana Peel.” Pioneer Institute, September 23, 2010. https://pioneerinstitute.org/news/ed-glaeser-slips-on-a-banana-peel. Ehrenkranz, N. Joel, and Deborah A. Sampson. “Origin of the Old
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Real?” USA Today, March 28, 2011. www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-03-28-1Aschooltesting28_CV_N.htm. Glaeser, Edward. “Cities and Pandemics Have a Long History.” City Journal, Spring 2020. www.city-journal.org/cities-and-pandemics-have-long-history. ———. “City Air Makes You Free.” NewBostonPost, March 26, 2016. https://newbostonpost.com/2016/03/26
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W X Y Z ABOUT THE AUTHORS Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Professor Glaeser has published extensively on cities and their evolution over the last thirty years, and he is the author of Triumph of the City. He leads the Urban Economics Working
The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us
by Joel Kotkin · 11 Apr 2016 · 565pp · 122,605 words
in the preceding century and a half.59 Homeownership was widely seen as a critical factor in America’s experiment with self-government. As sociologist Robert Lynd notes, “the characteristic thing about democracy is its diffusion of power among the people.”60 This movement continued, notes economist Ed Glaeser, despite widespread suggestions that
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Area,” Journal of Applied Meteorology & Climatology, vol. 53, 1886–1900, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0194.1. ADES, Alberto and Edward L. GLAESER. (1995). “Trade and Circuses: Explaining Urban Giants,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 110, 195–227. AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE. (2013, August 6). “China’s Young Adults Are
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
by Richard Baldwin · 14 Nov 2016 · 606pp · 87,358 words
. Urban economics has many explanations for the close association between globalization’s first unbundling and rising city size. Among the most compelling is Ed Glaeser’s simple assertion that cities are a way of economizing on communication costs. Cities are where people meet and exchange ideas. As Glaeser put it in a 2009 Economix blog post: “Globalization
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industrial zones for this type of “industrial” activity be? Cities as Twenty-First-Century “Factories” According to Harvard economist Ed Glaeser, talented people gather in cities because this makes them more productive. What this means for rich-nation competitiveness policy is straightforward. Human capital and cities are likely to be the foundations of the twenty-first
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Ottaviano from the London School of Economics (Richard Baldwin, Philippe Martin, and Gianmarco Ottaviano, “Global Income Divergence, Trade, and Industrialization: The Geography of Growth TakeOffs,” Journal of Economic Growth 6, no. 1 [2001]: 5–37). 3. Edward L. Glaeser, “Why Has Globalization Led to Bigger Cities?” Economix (blog), New York Times, May 19, 2009, http://economix
Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone
by John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai · 25 Jul 2025
and Parag Pathak, “Forced sales and house prices,” American Economic Review 101 (2011): 2108–2131. 30. See Amir Kermani and Francis Wong, “Racial disparities in housing returns” (NBER working paper 29306, 2021). 31. See Edward L. Glaeser and
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
by Jeff Speck · 13 Nov 2012 · 342pp · 86,256 words
. This is a concept that is both stunningly obvious—cities exist, after all, because people benefit from coming together—and tantalizingly challenging to prove.● This hasn’t kept it from the lips of some of our leading thinkers, including Stewart Brand, Edward Glaeser, David Brooks, and Malcolm Gladwell. Speaking at the Aspen Institute, David Brooks
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of the city with the intellectual culture of the countryside.17 Now that the full environmental impacts of suburban development are being measured, a new breed of thinkers is finally turning the old paradigm on its head. These include David Owen—like Jane Jacobs, a mere writer—and the economist Ed Glaeser, who puts
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others, that while some urban designers rail against tall buildings, most economists clamor for more. Ed Glaeser, today’s noisiest advocate for skyscrapers, insists that they are necessary for preserving affordability in our blossoming urban cores, and Chris Leinberger has notoriously dared to question Washington, D.C.’s century-old height limit. This
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.com/quotes/. 16. Owen, 19, 23. 17. Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, and Jeff Speck, Suburban Nation, 7–12. 18. Edward Glaeser, “If You Love Nature, Move to the City.” 19. Owen, 2–3, 17. 20. Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley, and Heather Boyer, Resilient Cities, 7, 88. 21. Ibid., 92. 22. John Holtzclaw, “Using Residential Patterns
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, 2010. Branyan, George. “What Is an LPI? A Head Start for Pedestrians.” ddotdish.com, December 1, 2010. Brooks, David. “The Splendor of Cities.” Review of Triumph of the City by Edward L. Glaeser (New York: Penguin, 2011). The New York Times, February 7, 2011. Brunick, Nicholas. “The Impact of Inclusionary Zoning on Development.” Report of
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7, 2010. “Off with Their Heads: Rid Downtown of Parking Meters.” Quad City Times editorial, August 8, 2010. Peirce, Neal. “Biking and Walking: Our Secret Weapon?” citiwire.net, July 16, 2009. _____. “Cities as Global Stars.” Review of Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser. citiwire.net, February 18, 2011. Peterson, Greg. “Pharmaceuticals in Our Water Supply
More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next
by Andrew McAfee · 30 Sep 2019 · 372pp · 94,153 words
life is less environmentally friendly than urban or suburban dwelling. City folk live in high-density, energy-efficient apartments and condos, travel only short distances for work and errands, and frequently use public transportation. None of these things is true of country living. As economist Edward Glaeser summarizes, “If you want to be good to the
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farms have gone fallow. This is partly because we don’t have much experience with successful interventions aimed at particular regions. As economists Benjamin Austin, Ed Glaeser, and Larry Summers wrote in 2018, “Traditionally, economists have been skeptical about [place-based] policies because of a conviction that relief is best targeted toward
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and Productivity Conference, Washington, DC, February 2–3, 2017), https://www.farmfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/attachments/1942-Session%201_Key_US.pdf. Between 1982 and 2012 farms under one hundred acres grew: Ibid. “The best thing that we can do for the planet is build more skyscrapers”: Edward L. Glaeser, Matthew Kahn, Manhattan Institute, and
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, November 12, 2018, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-wildlife/china-postpones-lifting-of-ban-on-trade-of-tiger-and-rhino-parts-idUSKCN1NH0XH. “Traditionally, economists have been skeptical”: Benjamin Austin, Edward Glaeser, and Lawrence H. Summers, “Saving the Heartland: Place-Based Policies in 21st Century America,” in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley · 10 Jun 2013
in places like Silicon Valley because ideas cross corridors and streets more easily than continents and seas,” as the Harvard economist Edward L. Glaeser puts it.16 In that respect, technology is no different from the garment industry that flourished in New York City in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, film production in Hollywood, music
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of the nation’s clean economy. Although the densest parts of metropolitan areas (typically, central cities) are thought of as dirty, congested, and polluted, their environmental impact per capita is in fact fairly modest.40 As economist Ed Glaeser has written, “If the future is going to be greener, then it must be more
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/images_pdfs/pdfs/Engineering_A_Tech_Sector.pdf). 15. Edward B. Roberts and Charles Eesley, “Entrepreneurial Impact: The Role of MIT” (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Sloan School of Management and the Kauffman Foundation, 2009), p. 5. 16. Edward L. Glaeser, The Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, Happier (
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2012. 56. “No Parking,” The Economist, March 24, 2012. 57. See Christopher H. Wheeler, “Cities and the Growth of Wages among Young Workers: Evidence from the NLSY,” Working Paper 2005-055A (St. Louis, Mo.: Federal Reserve Bank, 2005). Edward Glaeser and David Maré discovered that workers in large metro areas eventually accrued a 33 percent
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stayed with them even after they left the metro, indicating that being in the metro mix with other skilled people makes individuals more productive. Edward L. Glaeser and David C. Maré, “Cities and Skills,” Journal of Labor Economics 19 no. 2 (2001). 58. See Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws
by John R. Lott · 15 May 2010 · 456pp · 185,658 words
Ongoing research with Steve Bronars and William Landes has contributed to this book. Maxim Lott provided valuable research assistance with the polling data. For their comments on different portions of the work included in this book, I would like to thank Gary Becker, Steve Bronars, Clayton Cramer, Ed Glaeser, Hide Ichimura, Jon Karpoff
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groups considered most vulnerable (for example, females in the case of rape).22 Evidence reported by Glaeser and Sacerdote confirms the higher crime rates experienced in cities and examines the effects on these rates of social and family influences as well as the changing pecuniary benefits from crime;23 the present study, however, is
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so. After all, the ultimate public policy goal would seem to be to reduce overall suicides and not just one method of committing suicide. Yet even more perverse results have been obtained. David Cutler, Edward Glaeser, and Karen Norberg have conducted by far the largest study on what factors are related to suicides by
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Chicago School of Law working paper (1997). The relative differences in gun ownership across groups is also consistent with recent work using other polls by Edward Glaeser and Spencer Glendon, “Who Owns Guns?” American Economic Review 88 (May 1998). The empirical work that will be done later will allow us to adjust
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variable like the percent of young males in the population could be zero even when the group in question poses a large criminal threat. 23. Edward L. Glaeser and Bruce Sacerdote, “Why Is There More Crime in Cities?” Harvard University working paper, Nov. 14, 1995. 24. For a discussion of the relationship between income
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
by Sara C. Bronin · 30 Sep 2024 · 230pp · 74,949 words
Development, State of the Cities Data Systems, https://socds.huduser.gov/permits/. 76 “more than twice as well”: Michael Kimmelman, “How Houston Moved 25,000 People from the Streets into Homes of Their Own,” New York Times, June 14, 2022. 76 supply of housing: See, e.g., Edward L. Glaeser and Bryce A. Ward, “The
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forty-eight building permits issued in 2021 by the municipality were for single-family homes. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, State of the Cities Data Systems. 77 constraints dampen production: Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko, “The Impact of Building Restrictions on Housing Affordability,” FRBNY Economic Policy Review 9, no. 2 (June 2003
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); Edward L. Glaeser, Joseph Gyourko, and Raven Saks, “Why Is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in Housing Prices,” Journal of Law & Economics 48, no
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